Why Being an Investigator Works When Dealing with Bad Behavior
I am very thankful this month to be guest blogging for my friend Anne of Green Eggs and Mom, which is one of my favorite parenting blogs around. Anne shares interesting and valuable parenting tips and...
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Back to School: What’s Our Role in Our Children’s Education?
Age 5, you’ve been waiting for your child to get here for what feels like forever, but in reality, its only been five years, an entire lifetime as a new parent. The first day of school. A time to let...
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Q&A My Perspective: When You Don’t Agree With Your Child’s Teacher and Their...
QUESTION How do you support your child’s teacher when you don’t agree with their behavior management practices? MY PERSPECTIVE When we pass off our children to complete strangers in the beginning of...
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Why I am The Boss of You
Since I just suggested last week that its good to not hold the reigns too tight on our children, it seemed appropriate to re-post when it absolutely is. My daughter’s 9 and she’s pretty awesome....
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Q&A My Perspective: Are You “Over Parenting” Your Child?
QUESTION I am a single mom of a 4 1/2 yr old boy who is handsome, insanely smart, small for his age and wears glasses. I also am guilty of overprotecting or overparenting, whatever they call it these...
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Swearing in Front of Our Kids- Yes, No or Maybe So
As practice, I do not swear in front of my children because I believe that $h!t is wrong. They hear enough potty talk on the bus and on television, that I choose to refrain from adding to it. Now...
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How Mental Illness and Emotional Disorders Impact Our Children
I am one of those people who purposefully doesn’t watch the news, follow politics or read the newspaper. I used to, avidly. It gave me something to think about, worry about, obsess over and be angry...
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College Planning- The Prerequisite Course
This is a re-post in honor of my very favorite senior who was just accepted into the school of her dreams after waiting it out and the college finally acknowledging they’d be fools not to bring in her...
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You Will Get Into College
Dear Teenager Thinking About College, This will mark the time you look at yourself and judge your place in the future and the past. Many of you will start wondering where you could have done better...
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5 Ways To Teach Our Kids How to Use Their Voice
Remember the last time you walked away from an interaction with someone where you didn’t respond with what you were really thinking? The one where you had 27 brilliant rebuttals or hard core responses...
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