What will your children’s lives look like if you take part in the Great Parenting Show? How will your family change now and in the future because you took the time to listen to these free interviews? I don’t know the answer for you but many listeners have shared how transformational the series has been [...]
Archive | children behavior RSS feed for this section
Help with Organizing and the Importance of Finding Your Pause Button
You want to be the best parent you can be. However, if you are buried in clutter, or blowing up at your kids, you can’t be your best. That’s why last week I kicked off the Great Parenting Show with interviews with Marla Cilley, the organizational expert better known as the FlyLady, and Hal Runkel, [...]
Want Great Parenting Information? The Great Parenting Show Starts Next Week!
If you’re like me, you’ve spent a lot of time trying to answer life’s big questions: * How can I create a joyful connected family? * How can I raise self-reliant children? * How can I help my children contribute to the world? * How can I heal and become the parent I want? * [...]
Kids Don’t Mean to be Mean; AKA Kids Do the Darnest Things
If you have one minute, you owe it to yourself to watch the video in this post. You’ll have a great laugh, and your kids will too. Hopefully, you will also take away a major parenting lesson. Watch the video and then read the rest of this post. Do you think Charlie, the baby, meant [...]
Sibling Rivalry
One of the biggest triggers for parents, especially when your kids are young, is fighting. When you love both of your kids and they are being mean to each other, it can be very hard not to be reactive. Unfortunately often our reaction is not helpful and causes more tension and fighting. When my kids [...]
Anxiety, Ants, and How to Help Your Children
I’m working on a major new parenting show for the fall, called the Great Parenting Show. One of the first experts I contacted was Dr. Daniel Amen, because of his amazing work. He is a psychiatrist and physician, who has numerous popular books on the brain, and how to optimize this pivotal human organ. I [...]
Great Parenting is Perfect Imperfection
Striving to be super mom has a powerful dark side, that includes angry moms, depressed and anxious moms, who are raising children without being able to meet their needs. The women who pull off a super mom image are those who are more realistic in their expectations of themselves, and more unconditional in their self-love and love for their family.
