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Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
~ Albert Einstein
From The Blog
When Your Child’s Friends Are a Bad Influence
A mom wrote to me and shared… “My 7-year-old daughter is easily influenced by her peers. If her friends are doing well that's great. She follows directions and cooperates, but if her friends do something bad, she follows them and gets into trouble. Generally speaking,...
How To Talk To Kids About Social Media And Mental Health
Does this sound familiar…? I heard a mom say, “When I go into my 9-year-old daughter’s room in the afternoon and I see her in bed under the covers on her tablet watching YouTube, I feel worried that it’s going to affect her mental health. And I don’t want her to miss...
3 Steps For Fighting Siblings
We received a question from a family whose son and daughter have gotten along well for years… but now they don’t. The daughter (12 years old) wants to hang out with her friends and is being “mean” to her brother, and the son (9 years old) is responding by being...
Bring Balance to Parenting: Connect with Your Kids and Reclaim the Joy Again
When people ask me, “How do you do it all?” I feel proud and a little smug, but I probably shouldn’t… Let’s be clear. All the rushing, being on our screens, and productivity have a dark side especially if you are a parent… Rushing all the time means that we are...
Parents: How to Calm Down (In the Moment)
One time when our kids were younger they got into a fight about something, I was so maxed out that I locked myself in the bathroom to take a few breaths. I had to escape because I didn’t have a reliable plan for how to soothe myself in high-stress moments. When you’re...
How to be happy, regardless of your child’s behavior
Real quick. I’ve been realizing that it’s a trap to think, “I’ll be happy when my child does X” or “I’ll stop worrying if my child stops doing Y” or “I’ll feel accomplished as a parent when my child accomplishes Z”. Yet, we have these kinds of thoughts about our kids...