Julie Freedman Smith and Gail Bell
Julie Freedman Smith and Gail Bell provide tools for real life parenting through their company, Parenting Power. Using over 40 years of combined experience, they work with parents across the country through telephone coaching, podcasts, and video courses to ease the stress and guilt of parents while providing practical solutions to everyday parenting challenges. www.parentingpower.ca
When You Disagree with Your Child’s Teacher or Coach
We really are all working toward the same goals. The last thing you want is to disagree with your child’s teacher or coach.
How Many After-School Activities Are Too Many?
There is no magic answer that suits every child and family. However, there is an answer that’s just right for you, your child and your entire family—it’s just a matter of finding it.
How to Handle Toddler Tantrums
Is it the terrible twos, or something more? What’s the best way of handling toddler tantrums?
I Think I’m Raising a Perfectionist Kid…Now What?
It’s no fun feeling frustrated all the time. How you respond to perfectionist kid outbursts will set them up to deal with failure in the future.
How to Teach Kids to Find Things
It can feel so frustrating to be asked again and again to find things when our kids can do it themselves. Here’s how to start teaching them to do exactly that.
How to Stop Making Excuses for Your Kids
When we use excuses, we don’t have to admit that we don’t know what to do to make things better. What can we do instead?
How to Turn Your Kids into Model Citizens
Since children learn what they live, our job as parents is to be sure that we are modelling, teaching and living the values that we believe are important. So what does that look like on a daily basis?
Honesty Can Stop the Daycare Dropoff Tears
Sneaking out at school or the daycare dropoff to avoid tears and tantrums does more harm than good. Find out why honesty is the best policy.
5 Ways to Make the Back to School Transition Easier
Back to school doesn’t mean ‘back to chaos’. Check out these 5 steps to help your family ease into your back to school transition…
5 Ways to Make the Most of Book Time with Our Kids
Book time creates an incredible opportunity for connection with kids. Here’s how to make the most of it, even when they’re not yet reading.