Connection Before Correction: How a Few Minutes Will Save Your Relationship with Your Child for a Lifetime
As a parent, you feel the weight of everyday pressures mounting daily.
Man-Up: 5 Tips For Becoming a More Emotionally-Engaged Father
What’s the point of being an emotionally-engaged father? Isn’t it just a lot of girly stuff? Why can’t I just be provider and disciplinarian while their mother deals with the emotions?
Tell a Little Story: The positive impact that storytelling can have on your child
We’ve all been there as moms. Your child trips and falls and is crying inconsolably. You hold and comfort him and help clean up the wound. Maybe you even offer a little kiss on the boo-boo to make it feel all better. But the rest of the day your little sunshine doesn’t seem so happy. Here’s a little technique that might just make things a little easier next time. It’s an incredibly powerful tool to use with your children: storytelling.
Time to Set Everything Aside and Play with your Kids!
Most people can’t argue with the fact that life is busy. You have a million things to think about and do, only some of which are your career, home life, errands, taking care of responsibilities for the children and trying to get in a little time for yourself and significant other. Its a never-ending cycle and completely exhausting most days. But somehow in the midst of all our “doing” we forget about just “being”, especially with our children.
Talking to Your Kids about Death
Many parents simply do not know how to approach the topic and end up having a belief that children are not capable of handling the concept of death. Its a topic that is glossed over, denied, avoided and often times the responsibility falls to others such as teachers or religious leaders. But whether your child has personally or not personally experienced a death of a loved one, it is a topic that must be discussed.