Parenting

• Summer Anti-Boredom List

  Before summer vacation turns into a boredom fest, sit down as a family and make a summer anti-boredom list. Write down a mixture of long overdue chores that you’ve been meaning to get done, along with goals and dreams that you’ve always wanted to accomplish.

• Sanity In The Summer – Is It Possible?

  Parents across the country are gearing up for the inevitable… the last day of school. I personally am looking forward to a much-needed break from the long drive to and from school each day, packing lunches, getting stains out of school uniforms, and the nickel-and-diming of school fundraisers. Of course, I always am looking forward to the last day of school by this time each spring.

• Protect Your Kids from Harmful Sunburns this Summer

  We’ve all been there – the horrible feeling of a sunburn. Few things feel worse, with the painful, stretched feeling where your skin burns and hurts when anything (including clothing) touches it.

• Are you a Mentor Mom?

  If not, find someone. Better yet, BE a Mentor Mom! Find a woman who’s struggling with the routine of life. Provide a kind and steadying influence as someone who’s a little farther along the road.

• Single Parenting: Understand How Your Personality Can Benefit Yourself and Your Child

  Are you an organizer or a protector? Do you like to keep the peace or to question? Is your greatest talent that of being a helper, or do you take a moral stance to ensure everything is right? Are you an observer tending to stand on the sidelines and watch what unfolds? Or do you see life as a game, to be played for your entertainment?

• Smoothing the Step-Parenting Transition

  Three years ago, when John and Julie Smith fell in love and decided to marry they wanted to know what they could do to ease the transition of their marriage on their children. Each had 2 biological children of their own, ranging in age from 8 to 16 and John and Julie knew that getting the families together could be challenging.

• How Our Children Really Learn And Why They Need To Play More And Memorize Less

  Now that we know the scientific data about how children’s brains develop, several lessons emerge. One is a cautionary note, and the others offer ways in which you can see the world differently and stimulate your child’s brain growth in a more natural way.

• The Language of Learned Helplessness: Quiz

  Not many parents set out to raise a thirty-year-old Nintendo player who sprawls on the couch all day sucking up pizza and diet Pepsi. Yet many parents actually subvert their positive intention of raising responsible, confident, fully functioning children. They do it by unconsciously using Parent Talk that allows and encourages helplessness.