“Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There”
Weekly Parenting Tip Sometimes what we need most as parents is just the opposite of the old advice your mother used to shout at you, “Don’t just sit there, do something!” In our busy, frantic, crazy world within our families, we need to turn the old cliche around and tell ourselves “don’t...
Side-Effects of Parenthood
Weekly Parenting Tip Hey, we don’t want to always make these parenting tips too serious and heavy! So for the next few weeks, they will have some humor to them, or at least some amusement as we think about the sometimes chaos-filled, up-and-down life phase that we call everyday...
Helping Kids Set Goals
Weekly Parenting Tip Are your kids working to meet your goals, or have you taught them how to set their own? That is a big question, because the answer can determine the whole chemistry of your relationship with your children. If it is you setting the goals for them, then your...