Family Relationships

Family Relationships

Encouraging Resilience

Seven Reasons to Help Children Master Small Tasks

Building Relationships

Our House Rules Need to Focus on What Matters

Encouraging Resilience

Why and How We Should Quit Taking Responsibility for Our Kids’ Happiness

Encouraging Resilience

12 Great Principles for Encouraging Problem Solving Skills in Children with Trauma

Being the Person Who Is Not Supposed to Be There

How to Be The Person Who's Not Supposed to Be In Our Kids' Lives

Seven Important Principles for Enjoyable Blended Family Vacations

Building Relationships

Four Important Principles for Letting Our Kids Bounce Off Us

Building Relationships

What It Means to Let Our Kids Bounce Off Us and Why It's Important

Building Relationships

How To Keep a Good Relationship with Adult Children Still Living at Home

Building Relationships

The Power of Hanging Out With Our Kids

Building Relationships

Four Ways to Encourage Step-Sibling Relationships

Building Relationships

Why and How to Have Difficult Conversations With Our Children

Building Relationships

The Best Reason To Keep Trying With Our Kids

Building Relationships

How the 80/20 Rule Can Strengthen Your Family Relationships

Building Relationships

Our Teens’ Brains May Be Hard-Wired to Ignore Us

Being the Person Who Is Not Supposed to Be There

Four Ways to Be the Mentor, Not the Villain, in our Children's Stories

Being the Person Who Is Not Supposed to Be There

Figuring Out Where We Fit In Our Children's Stories

Encouraging Resilience

How to Empower Our Children to Create Their Own Happiness

Building Relationships

How to Accept that We Cannot Control Our Children's Decisions

Take Time to Enjoy the Opportunities We Have With Our Children

Building Relationships

Five Things Theater and Movies Can Teach Us about Dealing with Family Drama

Three Important Things to Remember About Christmas Presents for Your Child's Biological Parents

Why and How to Help Your Kids Stay in Touch with Biological Family During the Holidays

Being the Person Who Is Not Supposed to Be There

Why and How to Help Our Kids Deal With the Unavoidable Loss in Adoption

Seven More Ways to Manage Holiday Stress

Seven Ways to Help Manage Stress Over the Holidays

Building Relationships

Supportive Parenting Styles Correlate with Warm Relationships with Adult Children

Why and How We Need to Manage Our Expectations for the Holidays

Encouraging Resilience

More Research about Family Traits that Help Foster Resilience

How to Parent Children From Different Faith Traditions

Encouraging Resilience

Four More Ways to Help Children Struggling with School

Building Relationships

Good Ways to Help a Child Struggling With School

Setting and Protecting Your Priorities

Five Things to Remember When You Can't Do It All

Strong Commitments and Healthy Boundaries

How to Let Our Kids Know We See Them Clearly and Love Them Unconditionally (part 1)

Effects of Childhood Trauma

Why It's Easy to Repeat the Cycle of Trauma and How to Stop

Encouraging Resilience

How to Encourage Resilience Through Emotional Support

Building Relationships

How and Why Fathers are Important to Our Kids

Building Relationships

A Common Reason Why Your Kids May Reject You

Encouraging Resilience

Lowering Our Expectations May Be the Best Way to Lower Our Kids’ Stress

Working with Biological Family

Why and How To Keep Our Kids Connected to Their Biological Parents

Power of Plan B Parenting

Embrace the Power of Being Our Child's Plan B

Building Relationships

Three Principles for Helping Children You Don't Understand

Encouraging Resilience

How to Help Our Children Change Bad Habits

Building Relationships

Four Ways to Limit Parenting Stress

Building Relationships

We Need to Be Careful What We Label Child Abuse

Encouraging Resilience

How We Can Start With a Clean Slate, Or At Least Come Close

Lessons About the Holidays I Learned At Walt Disney World

How to Help Your New Family Adjust to the Holidays

We Need to Be Grateful for Our Kids, and Let Them Know

Honoring the Unique Challenges of Military Stepfamilies

Being the Person Who Is Not Supposed to Be There

It's Important to Our Kids When We Show Up

It's Never too Early to Start Planning for the Holidays

Being the Person Who Is Not Supposed to Be There

What It Means To Recognize Our Children Have Agency

Encouraging Resilience

How to Help When Your Child is Being Bullied

Building Relationships

How To Reduce Burnout By Letting Go of Decisions

Encouraging Resilience

Ways to Build Resilience in Young Adults

Setting and Protecting Your Priorities

Less-Than-Perfect Parenting Is Good For Our Kids

Encouraging Resilience

Building Resilience by Building Relationships

Finding and Enforcing Logical Consequences

Why I Look for Low-Maintenance Consequences for Children

Effects of Childhood Trauma

How to Help Our Children Untangle Their Emotions

Being the Person Who Is Not Supposed to Be There

How to Respond to "You Are Not My Parent!"

Encouraging Resilience

The Trap of Blaming Other People

Building Relationships

Don't Forget About the Quiet No-Problem Child

Building Relationships

Why It Is Important to Build a Family Team

Being the Person Who Is Not Supposed to Be There

Knowing that Someone Somewhere Cares About You

Building Relationships

Maybe Your Problem Child is a Gifted Child

Building Relationships

More About How to Respond to "It's Not Fair"

Building Relationships

How to Respond to "It's Not Fair!"

Building Relationships

More Thinking About "It's Not Fair!"

Building Relationships

How to Think About "It's Not Fair!"

Building Relationships

Why Quality Time is Essential to Stepparenting

Strong Commitments and Healthy Boundaries

Why Sacrifice Is Crucial in Stepparenting

Building Relationships

How to Be a Weekend Bonus Parent with Full-Time Step-siblings

Being the Person Who Is Not Supposed to Be There

How to Be A Weekend Bonus Parent

Building Relationships

Four Ways to Lessen Chaos in Your Family

Building Relationships

How to Live in Peace With Your Teenager

How To Navigate Mother's Day with Different Sets of Children

Encouraging Resilience

Family Resilience Traits May Help Prevent Bullying

Building Relationships

How to Help Stepsiblings Get Along and Keep the Peace

Being the Person Who Is Not Supposed to Be There

How to Handle Different Rules for Different Homes

Being the Person Who Is Not Supposed to Be There

Where We Fit In The Stories Our Children Tell Themselves

How to Parent Children Of Different Faith Traditions

Being the Person Who Is Not Supposed to Be There

What to Do When You Don’t Like Your Child

Strong Commitments and Healthy Boundaries

We Are Not Responsible for Everything

Encouraging Resilience

Helping Children Recover by Being a Safe Space

Encouraging Resilience

Building Family Resilience