A little girl is lying on the floor holding a LEGO piece and kicking her feet. Her older sister, in the middle of building, keeps demanding, “Give it back! Give it to me!” “You need to start listening and give that to your sister right now!” her dad intones angrily. The air is tense. You […]
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How to Stop Reacting and Start Responding to Your Teen
Parents and kids have the ability to trigger each other as no one else can. “You have no idea what a bad day I had…I have no patience for you right now…” “What were you thinking!?!?” “You need to learn a lesson about respect, young man, that is no way to talk to your father.” […]
How to Respond When Your Kids “Disrespect” You
Is it important to you that your kids have a voice? You know – that they question things, not just take things at face value, and feel like they can stand up for things they believe in? Yea? Me too. It’s actually really important to me. Sometimes that means that they disagree with me. They might say no. […]
Who Am I to Tell You How to Parent?
Against my better judgment and intentions, I still jump in with solutions even when I know my kids should figure stuff out on their own. I still give too much advice. Just tonight at bedtime my son told me something and I didn’t handle it the way I wished I would have. I’m irritable. I […]
The Top 5 Reasons We Lose our Sh#t on our Kids
When was the last time that your kids drove you so nuts that you lost (or almost lost) your shit on them? We’re human. It happens. So why do you get so mad? I’ll bet that most of the time it’s because your kids aren’t doing what you want them to do when you ask […]
