by Natasha | Jul 22, 2022 | tween reality
Dear Caring Parent, I witnessed this scenario and it made me wonder how many conversations do we have as parents in which we need to get curious about ‘what’s under this?’ Here’s what I heard: Dad, putting some garden stuff into a trash bin. “Hey Beth” Beth... 
by Natasha | Jul 15, 2022 | Parent World
Dear Caring Parent, What’s the big deal about your parenting team? In short, these are people that are your modern version of ‘it takes a village’. We no longer have that house-to-house, across the neighborhood blocks, village for our free.roaming kids (or... 
by Natasha | Jun 16, 2022 | CHILDREN
Dear Caring Parent, We all encounter this – the one big ‘C’ in parenting. Control. Control is that every present feeling, according to dear Webster, that we have ‘the power to direct behavior or a course of events’. And of course, as parents we do... 
by Natasha | Mar 23, 2022 | CHILDREN, Parent World
Dear Caring Parents, There are two Bs in your parenting experience that are fun to think about. They can help you out of guilty times and allow some annoying things to even be funny. It’s all about adopting these two Bs – becoming and being. I must admit... 
by Natasha | Jan 11, 2022 | CHILDREN
Dear Caring Parent, Have you noticed these two A’s in your parenting experience – acclimation and acceptance? We usually think of acclimation when we’re changing seasons or hiking higher mountains. Acclimation means to adapt to a new temperature,... 
by Natasha | Jun 23, 2021 | CHILDREN
Dear Caring Parent, Summer is in full swing! I finally have this year’s ALWAYS NEEDED supplies for family outdoors activity. Pack your bag with these and you will be ready for most things. It’s taken me a bit longer because I wanted to test a couple of them out before... 
by Natasha | Apr 28, 2021 | Parent World
Dear Caring Parent, Let’s grow how we are listening to our children differently. We parents often say, “You’re really suggesting I listen more to my child? All I do all day is listen to them! They are screaming, whining, speaking their words of... 
by Natasha | Apr 15, 2021 | CHILDREN
Dear Caring Parent, Sometimes when we parents hear the prompt to provide calm parenting, it feels like an insult. That’s because there’s a problem with being a calm parent. How can I be calm when my teenager is slamming doors? And then there’s my... 
by Natasha | Mar 25, 2021 | Parent World
Dear Caring Parent, Every year I think about my next-step for my snails paced greening of my household. It’s too much in life’s busyness to do it all at once! I’m a budget watcher and want to know about the reliability of products so it takes me a while to pick... 
by Natasha | Mar 12, 2021 | CHILDREN
Dear Caring Parent, Are our children disconnecting from themselves because we are ‘shoulding’ our children into disconnecting? We live in a culture of ‘shoulds’. For example, we should walk 10,000 steps a day, or more, for health. Then there...
