“The most important thing parents can give their children is love. The second most important thing is discipline.” -T. Berry Brazelton, M.D. Many parents today could use some serious coaching on how to create healthier boundaries with their kids. Just spend some time at a park where lots of families hang out and you’ll […]
Happy Families Have Healthy Boundaries: Part 1
“No” is a complete sentence.” -Anne Lamott “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” -Eleanor Roosevelt Are you frustrated because you have to tell your child to do something ten times before she listens? Are you exhausted because you are doing more than your fair share of the housework? How often do […]
How To Enhance Your Kids’ (And Your Own) Motivation: Part 2
”The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.” -Norman Vincent Peale In Part 1 […]
Parenting Advice for the New Millenium
“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.” […]
Negative Parentlng of Infants and Toddlers Increases Aggression
Results of a new research study of more than 260 mothers and their children, followed from birth until first grade, were published by University of Minnesota this week. Before the study, researchers believed that the combination of the temperament of the infant and negative parenting, particularly in the toddler phase (think terrible two’s) would put […]
