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
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 [...]
The Parenting Summit Interviews are Live!
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 [...]
Drum Roll Please…. Soon The Parenting Summit – Middle School Edition Site Will Be Live!
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, [...]
Sibling Rivalry and The Power of Parents to Diffuse It Through Patience and Vision
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
