Parenting

• Annoyed, Impatient Dads

  When you do feel these feelings of impatience or a lack of control, practice “being with the feelings.” Don’t fight them. Use a calm voiceno yelling, shame, or criticizing. Stay with the feelings until they pass. Don’t worry, you’ll make it through, and you will get better at it!

• Affirming Your Children’s Voice: How And When To Encourage Your Child To Speak Up

  Children don’t automatically know when and how to speak up. They don’t understand the appropriate times to interrupt. Nor do they often demonstrate the skills that will enable them to speak up effectively. They don’t understand the power of words and how to use them to create change in their lives.

• Playing The Sporting Game

  Softball, soccer, basketball, horseback riding, swimming, hockey, or volleyball the sport doesn’t matter. The guidelines for parents remain the same. To show support for your child while encouraging and teaching, consider the following…

• Girls Need Sports Too!

  If a girl does not play a sport by the time that they turn eight, she may not ever do so. So, what is a parent to do to motivate them to become active and healthy?

• Fear Of Failure: A Childhood Epidemic

  Fear of failure among children in America today is at epidemic proportions. Fear of failure causes children to experience debilitating anxiety before they take a test, compete in a sport, or perform in a recital. It causes them to give less than their best effort, not take risks, and, ultimately, never achieve complete success.

• The Importance Of Allowance

  Do you give your kids an allowance? If you do, then you have begun your child’s journey with appropriate money managing skills. If not, perhaps it’s time you started. Giving a child an allowance has many benefits, and it teaches responsibility in your child.

• First Day Jitters

  It’s that time once again. The short summer months will begin to wind down soon; lazy days at the pool or the beach will come to an end. Sleeping past 8:00am will only be for the weekends. Summer camps will be over, and there will be no more late evenings for the kids.

• The Mom Job

  I had my chance of experiencing what working mothers go through and I have to say, its just as hard working out of the home than it is being an at-home mother. Wow, trying to do so many things before leaving the house soon became very stressful for me.