17 awesome family experience gift for a shared gift list that will inspire family togetherness all year.
Why kids get hurt by knives and fire: how to prevent disaster
Imagine that you’re in the middle of cooking dinner and the phone rings. Looking at the screen, you see it’s probably important so you put down the knife on the cutting board next to all those diced onions, wipe the tear from your eye, and say “hello”. In walks your toddler. What do you do? […]
The simple key to turn a bad day into a positive opportunity
I got a phone call this morning and I was talking about how my 2 and 4 year olds were unintentionally tag-teaming a scream-a-thon. “Why?” was the response. But all I could think is “Anyone’s guess is as good as mine. Because they have big emotions? Because they don’t know how to express themselves? Or […]
Want to be a positive parent? Your job might actually help.
Can your job really influence how successful you are at being a peaceful or mindful parent? Research says yes. In fact, some of the latest research coming out this past year indicates that parents trying to juggle priorities in 2019 need flexibility in their workplace in order to also extend emotional flexibility in the home. […]
What research says about how to teach sharing
Other parents are always asking me how to teach sharing and almost always it’s a mother of a child under the age of two wanting to make sure their child knows how to share. Why? Because as adults we want to be helpful and to be aware of both the needs and the desires of […]
1 simple switch for parents: how to respond and NOT react
Jenn, Emma, and Rhett know all too well what it sounds like when mom starts counting. They hear me from a distant room… “1… 2…3…” and that’s when feet start scattering to do what I asked them to do in the first place like clean up their spill, get down from trying to climb out […]