Parenting
How to Get Your Kids to Listen to You
How to break out of the cycle of nagging, yelling, and saying everything three hundred and seventy billion times and get your kids to listen to you.
Getting Kids to Turn Off their Screens Without a Fight
If enforcing screen limits and getting your kids off their screens is a constant problem, here’s what to do…
When Practice Doesn’t Make Perfect… Teaching Resilence
Defeat happens, so why not offer our kids the tools with which to accept, learn, and grow from it? Teaching resilience should be our focus.
How to Discuss Traumatic Events with Children
Parenting expert Alyson Schafer shares 5 things to remember when discussing scary news stories and traumatic events with children.
Understanding What to Do for Night Terrors and Nightmares
Is your child having nightmares or night terrors? Here’s how to differentiate between the two and what to do.
Is Your Potty-Trained Child Having Accidents at School?
Is your potty trained child having accidents at school? For many kids, especially Kindergarteners, incontinence is normal. Here’s what to do.
8 Ways to Ensure Your Daughters Don’t Inherit Your Self Esteem Issues
I want my daughters to have healthy self esteem so I will give them the tools to avoid the path I went down. The path towards mental anguish, self-hatred, and doubt.
Questions to Get Kids Talking After School
If you’re starting each conversation with ‘How was your day?’, your chats might get very frustrating and end very quickly. Here’s how to get kids talking.
3 Things I Learned When My Kid Started French Immersion
When the time came to decide about French Immersion, I waffled. Would she succeed? Would it be too challenging? Would it risk her not loving school?