HOW TO HAVE THE BEST SCHOOL YEAR

10 Steps to a Great School Year with Your Child(ren) Going back to school can be exciting and stressful for children and parents.  Here are 10 steps to the best school year, ever: Use Rule #1 Take Care of Yourself Love the child you are with – Whatever is going on...

HARDEST PART OF BEING A PARENT

What is the hardest part about being a parent? For me, it is confidence.  There seems to be a lot of pressure around being a parent.  Of course, we don’t want to “mess” up our children and no matter how hard we try, we don’t seem to feel like we are doing it “good...

HOW TO SHOW EMPATHY

How do I Show Empathy when I don’t Feel it? I get asked “how do I show empathy all the time.”  One of the most common challenges for parents is how to feel empathetic when their child(ren) make mistakes.  It can be challenging.  It takes practice.  When our energy is...

Rule #1 Take Care of Yourself

How to Have Fun Parenting As parents, we either forget or we never knew how important it is to take care of ourselves in a loving and compassionate way with boundaries. In order to take care of others, we must take care of ourselves.  Like on an airplane, the...

Parenting

What is parenting all about?  Loving unconditionally?  Providing a safe place for our children to grow and learn? Passing along our values and being there for our children when they have trials and tribulations?  I would say all of the above and much, much more!  It...