Keep It Simple—Parenting Doesn’t Need to Be Hard
Kids don’t come with instruction manuals and parents don’t get training on how to parent. As a result, parenting can seem to be very hard for many parents, sometimes even...
Ending Back Talk and Bad Attitudes
Parents across the country increasingly are describing the same problem, kids who argue, roll their eyes, complain, and even refuse to do what their parents ask! One mother commented, “Every time...
Chores: Why Kids Need Them
Why Chores Matter for Kids Chores can provide kids with opportunities to learn important lessons about responsibility, perseverance, and humility. Over the years, we have learned that children who contribute...
Getting Your Child to Listen
You can train your child to hear what you say the first time that you say something. You can also train them to ignore you. Children who listen to their...
Modeling Healthy Relationships
It seems that many parents are concerned that their children aren’t motivated to love and respect them back, and they wonder why they have dysfunctional relationships with their kids. No...
Five Simple Steps to Help Kids Solve Their Own Problems
Too many kids grow up being unable to confront life’s problems and they end up making poor decisions. As parents and teachers, we want our kids to grow into adults...
Teens and Distracted Driving
Distracted driving comes in many forms, ranging from changing a radio station, to having a conversation with someone in the vehicle, to texting or talking on a mobile device. The...
Natural and Generic Consequences
A recent blog was about the myth of needing to deliver consequences immediately, and how delaying consequences helps give parents time to decide on appropriate consequences. What are appropriate consequences?...
Control Versus Wishes: How to Avoid Power Struggles
Whether we are parents or teachers, we often struggle with kids who are strong willed. With these kids, we often find ourselves locked into battles over things that we have...
