Parenting Techniques

Parenting Techniques

Childhood Trauma

Four Important Principles for Letting Our Kids Bounce Off Us

Childhood Trauma

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

Parenting Techniques

Is Less Supervision the Solution to Childhood Depression?

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

Parenting Techniques

An Object Lesson in How to Prepare Children to Handle a Crisis

Parenting Skills

Three Ways to Help Our Kids Learn Work Skills

Parenting Techniques

The Power of Hanging Out With Our Kids

Childhood Trauma

Six Ways to Help Our Children Stay Hopeful

Childhood Trauma

Three Destructive Myths About Hope and How to Counter Them

Parenting Techniques

Why and How to Have to Have Difficult Conversations With Our Children

Parenting Techniques

Why We Need to Love Our Kids Unconditionally and Set Boundaries for Them

Childhood Trauma

What If Our Kids' Bad Habits Are Actually Out-of-Place Skill Sets?

More Research Recommends Exercise as the Best Way to Battle Depression

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How the 80/20 Rule Can Strengthen Your Family Relationships

What Research Teaches About How to Help Our Children Struggling with Depression

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How to Motivate Our Children to Do Household Chores

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Why Our Kids Need Responsibility for Household Chores

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Why Do I Have to Constantly Repeat Myself With My Kids?

Parenting Techniques

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

Parenting Techniques

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

Parenting Techniques

Five Principles for Parents to Regroup and Recharge for the New Year

How To Cope When Your Children Reject You

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

Parenting Techniques

Seven More Ways to Manage Holiday Stress

Parenting Techniques

Seven Ways to Help Manage Stress Over the Holidays

Supportive Parenting Styles Correlate with Warm Relationships with Adult Children

Parenting Techniques

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

More Research about Family Traits that Help Foster Resilience

7 Things You Can Do if Your Child is Suffering from Anxiety

How to Build Our Kids' Resilience By Helping Them Change Their Self-Defeating Narratives

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How to Parent Children From Different Faith Traditions

Why Accommodations Should Lead to Success, not Excuses for Failure

Parenting Techniques

Four More Ways to Help Children Struggling with School

Parenting Techniques

Good Ways to Help a Child Struggling With School

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38 School Accommodations for Children Who Have Suffered Trauma

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6 Principles for Advocating for Trauma Sensitive Teaching for Your Kids

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One Important Alternative When Your Teens Struggle With School

Parenting Techniques

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

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How to Let Our Kids Know We See Them Clearly and Love Them Unconditionally (part 2)

Parenting Techniques

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

Parenting Techniques

5 Important Things to Remember about Our Teens and Summer Jobs

Parenting Techniques

5 Principles for Teaching Teens to Be Independent

Parenting Techniques

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

Parenting Techniques

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

Parenting Techniques

Why We Should Give Kids More Control Over Their Lives and How to Do It

Parenting Techniques

What Hobbits Can Teach Us About Being Good Mentors

Parenting Techniques

Four Things to Remember About How Teens Search for Identity

Parenting Techniques

Three Principles for Helping Children You Don't Understand

Parenting Techniques

Does It Matter Whether Our Kids Can't or Won't Behave?

More Encouraging Evidence that Positive Experiences Can Counteract Traumatic Experiences

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Why and How to Help Our Children Find Groups They Enjoy

Parenting Techniques

Four Ways to Limit Parenting Stress

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Why and How to Help Our Kids Find Mentors

Parenting Techniques

Case Study: We Need Boundaries to Protect Our Entire Family

Parenting Techniques

We Need to Be Careful What We Label Child Abuse

Be Prepared for Holiday Sadness From Your Foster or Step Children

Should We Get Presents for Our Kids' Biological Parents?

Parenting Techniques

It's Important to Our Kids When We Show Up

One Important Way to Show Children How to Resist Bullying

How to Teach Empathy to Children with Trauma

Parenting Techniques

How to Respond When Your Child Is the Bully

Parenting Techniques

How to Help When Your Child is Being Bullied

Parenting Techniques

How To Reduce Burnout By Letting Go of Decisions

Parenting Techniques

One Key Reason that We Burn Out as Parents

Parenting Techniques

Why I Look for Low-Maintenance Consequences for Children

Parenting Techniques

How to Use Logical Consequences with Children

Parenting Techniques

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

Childhood Trauma

The Trap of Blaming Other People

Parenting Techniques

Don't Forget About the Quiet No-Problem Child

Parenting Techniques

Why It Is Important to Build a Family Team

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Knowing that Someone Somewhere Cares About You

Foster Parenting

The Challenges of Parenting Gifted Foster Children

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Maybe Your Problem Child is a Gifted Child

Parenting Techniques

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

Parenting Techniques

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

Parenting Techniques

Don't Forget This Free Parenting Summit

Parenting Techniques

More Thinking About "It's Not Fair!"

Parenting Techniques

Chaos to Calm Parenting Academy

Parenting Techniques

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

Why Quality Time is Essential to Stepparenting

Media Appearances

Join Me and SoloMoms! Talk

Why Sacrifice Is Crucial in Stepparenting

Parenting Techniques

Seven Tips for Less Stressful Vacations

Parenting Techniques

Four Ways to Lessen Chaos in Your Family

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Can You Make The Necessary Commitment?

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How to Live in Peace With Your Teenager

Family Resilience Traits May Help Prevent Bullying

Can We Find Anti-Bullying Programs that Work?

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How to Help Stepsiblings Get Along and Keep the Peace

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How to Handle Different Rules for Different Homes

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Embrace the Power of "And"

Using the ADA to Help Our Children Cope with the Pandemic

Adverse Childhood Experiences

How to Respond When Our Children's Memories are Wrong

Parenting Techniques

Dealing with the Effects of Coronavirus Lockdowns

Parenting Techniques

Strong Commitments Require Strong Boundaries

Parenting Techniques

Making a Strong Commitment Requires That We Know Our Limits

Parenting Techniques

Our Commitments Have to Be One-Way

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Commitment is Stronger than Love

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How To Be The Mentor Rather Than The Villain in Your Family Story, Part 2

Parenting Techniques

How To Be The Mentor Rather Than The Villain in Your Family Story, Part 1