Helping Children Manage Homework Frustrations

With the creation of routines and the development of healthy work habits, children can get homework done in a timely manner, and with less frustration. Homework time can often be very stressful for children and their parents. Children can feel overwhelmed due to the amount of homework assigned, they may have a lack of understanding [...]

Back Talk

Many of the parents I talk with these days are upset about the nasty, disrespectful way their kids sometimes talk to them.  “Where do they learn to talk like this?” some ask.  “We don’t talk that way to them!” If you take a bit of time to tune into some of the popular TV shows [...]

Five Secrets to Setting and Achieving Your Goals

We so often start the New Year full of enthusiasm and certainty that this will be the year we will finally succeed.

Five Strategies for Coping with Teen Behavior

As the mom of two wonderful daughters I have to say I am overjoyed at the lovely, caring people they are becoming. As they now enter the teen years I also have to stand back and come to grips with what every parent at this stage has to come to grips with…they are growing up. [...]