Back to School Series: Setting Up for Success
A new school year is a landscape of opportunity. Much like a New Year’s resolution, parents and children alike make promises for the new school year, such as zero late …
Back To School Series: The Activity Balance
As kids and parents continue to prepare for back to school, the school schedule is not the only thing in mind as the family calendar starts to fill up. Increasingly, …
Back To School Series: How To Ease The Transition
It is hard to believe that though it feels like it just started, summer is starting to come to an end. Schools are planning orientations, creating class schedules, and assigning …
Positive Parenting: Why Spanking Is Never The Solution
Being a parent is hard. There are days when you want to lock yourself in your room and forget about all of your responsibilities for awhile. Yet, for most of …
Happiness Is Contagious: The Importance of Parental Modeling
Have you ever looked at your child as she was slamming her bedroom door, and felt a tinge of familiarity? Not familiarity in the sense that you are family, but …
The Many Faces of Childhood Anxiety: A Parent’s Survival Guide
Statistics say that about 20%, or 1 in every 8 children in the United States will suffer from an anxiety disorder at some point in their youth. Yet, even with …
Insta-Parenting: Keeping Kids Safe Online
If you are a parent of a teen child, chances are you’ve worried about his or her social media use. How much time should he be spending online each day? …