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, [...]
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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 [...]
Focus, Choice and a Dead Battery
I wrote a few weeks ago about how common it is for kids to get the message that they are bad (see post here). If you are guilty of this, it isn’t because that is what you want your kids to think, it’s just that it is easy to get stuck focusing on all the [...]
How to Set Your Family up for a Great Weekend or Summer Day
It is summertime! While this is a glorious time of year, it presents unique challenges for parents. All parents work, whether you are a stay-at-home, work-at-home parent or at the office. Summer, like weekends, presents many opportunities to connect with our kids, and often many conflicts with the work that still needs to be done! [...]
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.
Father’s Day: Make it Memorable
As I read so many posts about what books to get dad, or what gadget, I’m struck by how superficial these gifts really are. Yes, he probably will appreciate a thoughtful object, whether a book he’d enjoy, or the latest electronic device. But how about giving him something that he can’t give himself? Everyone craves [...]
You Know You are a Super Mom on Steroids When…
On a radio interview the other day, I coined the term super moms on steroids. At least I haven’t heard anyone else use the term. It seems like a pretty apt description of what is happening on the playgrounds these days. The topic was how we hurt ourselves by trying to be the perfect parent. [...]
