| June 17, 2011 November 4, 2019A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove…but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child. ~ Forest E. Witcraft I want to share a powerful story with …
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| May 19, 2011 November 5, 2019Without the abrasion of sand, there would be no pearl! If you are experiencing overwhelm, chaos and battling mood issues such as anger, depression and anxiety, it can seem completely hopeless. You may feel that although you love your children deeply, the parenting thing just isn’t working out like you planned. You may even have …
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| May 4, 2011 November 5, 2019My passion is parenting help because my life has been transformed from all the help with parenting I’ve received. Without meaning to, I began parenting way too hard on myself, my kids and my husband. I battled depression, anxiety and rage because of my unrealistic expectations of myself. The harder I was on my own …
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| November 16, 2010 November 5, 2019“The purpose of parenting is to protect and prepare our children to survive and thrive in the society in which we live.” Michael H. Popkin, Ph.D., founded Active Parenting Publishers in 1983. Soon after, he introduced the first video-based parenting education program, Active Parenting Now. It has helped millions of parents develop cooperation, responsibility and …
| August 20, 2010 November 5, 2019Many of the best tips on parenting help you to shift your perspective. Once you see things differently, you behave differently as well. As a recovering perfectionist, I am careful to add that it is important not to use this poem, or others like it, to point out our own short-comings, but to do better …
| May 7, 2010 November 5, 2019I read the other day that Larry King and his wife were filing for divorce, citing “Irreconcilable Differences.” That was yet another reminder to me to write this post about living with irreconcilable differences . I realize that some couples exist who have melded enough to not feel that they have any irreconcilable differences. Gay …
| April 5, 2010 November 5, 2019Excerpt from her article. …[W]hile fatherhood is seen as a steadying influence in a man’s life, something that makes a man if anything more reliable, motherhood is still too often assumed to be the point at which women lose the plot. For those who have never felt comfortable with women in positions of influence, motherhood …
| December 16, 2009 November 5, 2019Many parents have no idea how much power tears have in helping their kids become resilient, competent people. When my children were young I had the good fortune to learn about this important psychological ally from Dr. Gordon Neufeld, best-selling author of Hold on to Your Kids. Instead of trying to get my kids to …
| October 30, 2009 November 5, 2019I can’t remember ever meeting a mom who didn’t (sometimes) make her kids “earn” dessert by eating spinach – or at least by eating two more bites of it. And with Halloween coming up, the temptation to offset the candy-tide will be even stronger. I understand the rationale: we want to make sure we get …
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| September 22, 2009 November 5, 2019Remember when your child was first born? One of the amazing things that happens when we gaze into our newborn’s eyes, is we recognize at some level that we are being called to be more than we were before. In that moment, we would lay down our lives to be that higher person for this …
