Dear Caring Parent, August is the month for tired parents and bored kids! Parents are tired of taking care of everything and the kids are feeling that the less-scheduled summer has been great so far, but suddenly it’s boring. School now seems inviting!  It becomes hard to think of what to do. Everyone starts getting […]

Dear Caring Parent, Annoying children! They challenge our parenting skill. Here’s how one mom worked through dealing with her annoying child. Her son just wouldn’t pick up ANYTHING and it definitely was driving her parenting skills into the ground. The Annoying Child: Mom (about her son): He’s such a slob! I don’t care about his […]

Dear Caring Parent, I’ve noticed that sometimes I am a stormy creature when it comes to homework problems. When I would notice it wasn’t being attended to, I would react by storming through homework time. Are you storming over homework problems right now? I’m not, whew! But when I am storming, I usually start with […]

Dear Caring Parent, Our love for our children can in fact hit trouble. Sometimes we fall out of what I call our parenting love zone- that easy, flowing, heartfelt connection to our little beings. This falling out could be caused by our pre-occupation with something stressful outside of parenting, our frustration because our child isn’t […]

Dear Caring Parent, Desserts are especially fun for our children. Well, let’s face it, for us too!  No matter what you are cooking up, desserts are always a good addition. But how do you keep it yummy yet not sugar crazy? I know for sure that we need to reduce the amount of refined sugar […]

Dear Caring Parent, Of course, it’s at the grocery store, the restaurant, or right when you want to get to work or the gym up comes the toddler monster! We parents wonder, why oh why do my child’s tantrums be so crazy?! We know that a child’s tantrums are coming into our child’s life somewhere […]

Dear Caring Parents, Wowza, are you keeping up with all the social media that your kids have access to? It has mushroomed beyond comprehension in the past decade. It has some cool aspects to it for sure. Yet most parents I meet are shaking their heads about how to keep their children safe and grow […]

A Guest Blogger for OMG Parenting has this to say about motherhood…. Mixed emotions accompany the topic of motherhood. Motherhood is a beautiful, challenging responsibility, unique to women, and unique to each woman’s experience. Mothers are any and every type of woman: young, uneducated, poor, successful, well-off, supported, single, seasoned, professional, natural, adopted, powerful, utterly […]

Dear Caring Parent, There’s not as much parenting advise about tweens as there is about babies, toddlers and teens.  That’s because the tween years are so easy compared to the other years!! Tweens are 8 – 12 years in my book, although others might say 9 – 14 or 10 -14 years.  While they are […]

Dear Caring Parent, Do you ever find that you are repeatedly upset about the same thing with your kids; they don’t put the dishes away, they eat poorly, your toddler is so clingy, they’re always late, they don’t pay attention…? Ah, parenting issues! There have certainly been things that repeatedly brought out the parenting grrrr […]