“Parenting today is a wildly challenging, confusing job, far beyond anything most of us expected.” -Ron Taffel, Ph.D. This is how family therapist and child-rearing expert, Ron Taffel, begins his most recent book for parents, Childhood Unbound: Saving Our Kids’ Best Selves–Confident Parenting in a World of Change. What I love most about this […]
Lessons for Parents from the Tiger Mother
“This is a story about a mother, two daughters, and two dogs. This was supposed to be a story of how Chinese parents are better at raising kids than Western ones. But instead, it’s about a bitter clash of cultures, a fleeting taste of glory, and how I was humbled by a thirteen-year-old.” […]
The Significance of Family Meals
Even back one generation, sitting down for dinner as a family was pretty much a given. It is a telling sign of the times to find out how quickly this ritual is being swallowed up by the demands of our current culture. Many American families, if statistics are to believed, do sit down and eat […]
Getting Closer to Your Kids One Meal at a Time
“Basically, everything a parent worries about can be improved by the simple act of sitting down and sharing a meal.” – Laurie David, producer and author There are several up-to-date resources for parents wanting to know more about both the why’s […]
Happy Marriages and Families Take Time
“Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.” -Jim Rohn The wish to seek and have a deep sense of family connection and commitment is universal. Ask people what is most important to them and their first answer is always the […]
The Wrong Kind of Praise
“Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.” -Friedrich Nietzsche Although this research about the perils of too much praise on children’s learning is not new, it is so important […]
