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What Do Your Children Really Need, and Want, Even if They Won’t Admit it?

by Jacqueline Green on 09. Apr, 2010 in Child, Children, Connected Parenting, Jennifer Kolari, Online parenting class, Parenting, Parenting Tips, Parents, Teen smoking, Teens, Tweens, Uncategorized

Your kids need a powerful connection with you and/or another loving adult. Powerful connections to other kids are nice, but other kids cannot give your child the unconditional love and mature guidance that they need. In that sense, love is almost all our children need , but that love has to get through. Too many [...]

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Great Parenting Course by Connected Parenting founder Jennifer Kolari

by Jacqueline Green on 02. Apr, 2010 in Child, Children, Connected Parenting, Great Parenting, Jennifer Kolari, Mom, Online parenting class, Parent, Parenting, Parenting Tips, Uncategorized

If you are like me, you probably sometimes feel that you’d like to be better connected to your kids. From working with developmental psychologist Gordon Neufeld, I’m very clear on the power of attachment to minimize discipline issues and get our children to automatically follow our lead and adopt similar values. However sometimes the nuts [...]

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The Parenting Summit Interviews are Live!

by Jacqueline Green on 19. Mar, 2010 in ADD/ADHD, Child, Children, Connected Parenting, Dr. Kathlyn Hendricks, Family Vision, Great Parenting, Internet safety, Jennifer Kolari, Parenting, Parenting Tips, Parents, Sensitive child, Teens, The Parenting Summit, Tweens, Uncategorized, Unknown dangers of the Internet for Teens, Vanessa Van Petten, anxious child, anxious children, sensitive children

Imagine getting the help you need to deal with your worries, fears and realities with raising your children. Parenting did not come easily for me at all, which is why I became a parenting educator so that I could learn more and find better approaches than I already knew. I created The Parenting Summit, in [...]

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Drum Roll Please…. Soon The Parenting Summit – Middle School Edition Site Will Be Live!

by Jacqueline Green on 26. Feb, 2010 in ADD/ADHD, Annie Fox, Anxiety, Audio Owner's Manual for Raising Great Kids, Child, Children, Connected Parenting, Dr. Kathlyn Hendricks, Great Parenting, Internet safety, Jennifer Kolari, Kelly Rudolph, Middle School, Mom, Online parenting class, Parent, Parenting, Parenting Coach, Parenting Tips, Parents, Perfectionism, Sensitive child, Teens, The Parenting Summit, Uncategorized, Vanessa Van Petten, anxious child, anxious children, needs of children, parenting manual, sensitive children

I’ve been having a great time working on the details for TheParentingSummit.com! The big picture has been in development since last fall, but booking the experts, finding the sponsors and getting the website up has taken a lot of time. Like parenting, going from gestation to launch is a big job! Okay, I’ll admit it, [...]

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Child Development: Teaching Them to Share and Become More Empathetic

by Jacqueline Green on 18. Jan, 2010 in Child, Children, Connected Parenting, Jennifer Kolari, Parent, Parenting, Parenting Tips, Parents, Sibling Rivalry, Socialization, Uncategorized

I’ve been writing a lot lately about the power of Jennifer Kolari’s parenting work. She has taught me a lot about how to connect with my kids and work through major issues such as sibling rivalry, anxiety and behavioral issues. Last Saturday, a long-standing source of problems with the kids sharing was resolved, and along [...]

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Top 10 Parenting Experts in 2009!

by Jacqueline Green on 01. Jan, 2010 in Annie Fox, Attachment, Child, Children, Connected Parenting, Dan Fauci, Daniel Amen, Daniel Goleman, Dr. Gordon Neufeld, Dr. Kathlyn Hendricks, Gabor Mate, Great Parenting, Hold on to Your Kids, Internet safety, Jennifer Kolari, Martin Seligman, Middle School, Norman Doidge, Parenting, Parenting Coach, Parenting Tips, Parents, Teens, The Mastery of Self Expression, Tweens, Uncategorized, Vanessa Van Petten

Over the last decade as a parenting educator and coach, it has been an honor for me to work with and learn from so many excellent parenting experts. With so much information overload, and so many parenting experts, it can be difficult for parents to know where to start! To help you out, I want [...]

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Sibling Rivalry and The Power of Parents to Diffuse It Through Patience and Vision

by Jacqueline Green on 09. Dec, 2009 in Child, Children, Connected Parenting, Family Vision, Great Parenting, Jennifer Kolari, Parenting, Parenting Tips, Parents, Patience, Sibling Rivalry

Patience is natural to those who trust. ~ Course in Miracles I have this quote on my bathroom wall. This morning when I saw it after the kids had left for school, I reflected on how much my dramatic increase in patience over the last decade, has improved my parenting and family life. Instead of [...]

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Want to Connect with Your Kids? Great Book by Jennifer Kolari Gives You the Best Technique I’ve Encountered in 10 Years of Parenting Education

by Jacqueline Green on 05. Nov, 2009 in Child, Children, Connected Parenting, Great Parenting, Jennifer Kolari, Parenting, Parenting Tips, Parents, Uncategorized

Last summer I started seeing a new book on the Parenting Shelves at my bookstore. I was curious, but with so many great authors out there, I didn’t immediately pick it up. When I did, I was delighted to discover a powerful new way of communicating with kids that works when they are upset, or [...]

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