Dear Caring Parent, These 4 smart communication strategies will come in handy because, as we all know, communicating with your late tween and any-age teen will test your parental communication skills. This has forever rung true to parents. We now know it’s because their dramatic physical and psycho-social development causes moods and perspectives to frequently […]
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, In the first poll I ran on this site, I asked you which was the most difficult age for you to parent. And most of you clicked on either the toddler years or the teen years. Kinda the same as I hear anecdotally. These are the years that bring out the […]
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 a storming, angry parent over homework problems right now? I’m not, whew! But when I am storming, I usually […]
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 […]
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