Category: Parenting

Don’t we all want to keep kids outside as much as possible? I mean, why not? Sunlight, dirt, exercise, self-reliance… it’s all so good for them. Well, if you family is anything like ours, it can be a daily struggle to keep the kidlet off the screens in the summer or over the weekends.

Cell phone rules for kids are essential to their safety & wellbeing. If you’ve spent any length of time around a kid between the ages of about 8 – 17, you know as well as I do that they are practically attached to their phone (or iPod) 24 hours a day.

As parents, we want to believe that we are all-powerful when it comes to shaping our children. Although that is true in many aspects, a parent cannot build their child’s self-esteem in a real way.

As the holidays approach, parents are thinking about their kid’s upcoming week long breaks from school and many are panicking. What do you do with a kid when they’re off for an entire week or more? There are the usual things like playing with friends, movies, etc… but wouldn’t it be nice to actually connect with your kid?

Pre-teens, or “tweens” as my twelve year old prefers, seem to only exist to test us. Test our patience, test our commitment, test our sanity. Use these 3 easy tips to learn how to respond when your tween tests boundaries.

Middle school is where your child needs to start learning responsibility and independence if they haven’t already. Middle school is a testing ground and trial run for high school. Kids will never go through the natural process of learning to be self-reliant if mom and dad keep treating them like they did in grade school.

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