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In a lot of my parenting consultations I find myself telling the parents that the best way to manage their concerns is to increase love and decrease consequences. This past month a parent ask me to be more specific about what love looks like for children. What did they have to do to choose love over consequences. I thought that maybe all of you would like the answer to this question so here are my answers:
One of the most popular questions in our online parenting support subscription and in parent consultations is how to manage after school activities. Here are my suggestions in how to think about them and how to make choices around them:
It's August, and time to get ready for school again. For some of you it's the first time you are taking your little one to school. You are taking your child to kindergarten, middle school, and/or high school. School has multiple transitions, so here are quick tips to get you to that first day of school:
Its been a long year for all of us. The globe has been dealing with the ups and downs of a pandemic. Our brain has been on high alert for a year plus whether we admit it to ourselves or not. A brain on high alert causes all of us to feel overwhelmed and tired. A hyperaware brain will either react in a rigid way or a chaotic way.
My husband and I were speaking about our work. He is the Dean of Students at an independent school in Miami and I am the owner and founder of Stop Parenting Alone. We both found that we had the same experience this past month. Everyone had hit a wall. The teachers of those we each work with were asking, "When will this student finally change?" The students and my client's children were making mistakes, melting down, skipping classes, and simply making all sorts of poor choices. The parents in my parenting consultations and the online subscription were wondering what is wrong with my child, why aren't they progressing.
If you're a parent I want to recommend looking back and processing your past year in an effort to grow. Like your child, parents need to grow and expand with each passing year. Primarily to keep up with your changing and growing child but also to continue your parenting journey and development.
Often as parents we get stuck on the idea that we have to do something “special” or “out of the ordinary” for our children to have great memories. The truth is that most of us hold
I don't know about all of you but August seemed to pass by in a flash. It feels like I blinked and all of a sudden we were in September. August also felt exhausting for me primarily because I spent a lot of the month thinking about the losses I have experienced thus far and looking forward to yet another season without much change or clarity around my family and me.
Many schools, companies and media networks reached out last month for my expertise. I was both humbled and overwhelmed by the task. But I felt a great sense of gratitude that I could be that source of information for so many. I have put together the questions that seemed to repeat in all of these spaces and I want to share them with you:
Most parents have been feeling out of sorts these days. Many families who work with me have been describing how guilty they feel and want to know how to handle it. In these 3 minutes I walk you through how to handle your parenting hiccups.
