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Boundaries Are Good For Children!
Boundaries are good for children and parents.Boundaries create a loving family culture based on mutual respect, fairness, cooperation, and kindness.
Parenting with Purpose: Parent Teacher Conferences
By Lisa Edwards, Parent Coach Have you ever gone to a parent teacher conference and wondered why you went? Too often, parents are hustled through this 15 – 20 minute timeslot with a tired teacher who they can tell is giving the same spiel to everyone. But...
Celebrate Your Child Being An Introvert
Celebrate your child being an introvert.
Parenting With Purpose
By Lisa Edwards, Parent Coach Are you sometimes frustrated with your parenting? Do you wish you could do better, but you just don’t know how? We all do! There are definitely times we feel more confident as a parent and others where we could use...
Seven Tips For Raising Grateful Children
Make Gratitude Happen. Are you a grateful parent? Did you know that it is impossible to be stressed and grateful at the same time? It’s true. Gratitude is a strong deterrent to the negative emotions that cause us to become stressed with the pressures of daily life....
Help Your Child With Transitions
A timer can be useful for transitions. CHANGE CAN BE DIFFICULT FOR CHILDREN Change can be difficult for children. It might be a small change like transitioning from dinner to bedtime or a big change like moving to another school. Transitions happen everyday many...
Tips For Traveling With Your Family
Traveling for the holidays
Kindness For The Holidays
The Holidays are here! A little gratitude goes a long way. As parents, we are always looking for ways to teach our children how to be kind to one another. Along with modeling it ourselves. The holiday season is a perfect time to start or continue teaching kindness....
7 Reasons Family Traditions Are Important
Family Traditions Does your family have a special ritual or tradition? Do you use Great Grandma's cookie recipe? Or an elf on the shelf? Do you go to the holiday church service to light a candle? All of these fun family traditions are examples of what's important to...
When Tragedy Strikes! Parenting Through Pain
tragedy at home? Family tragedies occur, that’s a fact of life. If you are fortunate, you will avoid major tragedy in your life, but that isn’t true for everyone. Whether it is dealing with the death of a loved one, a prolonged sickness, divorce, the loss of precious...