5 Ways to Help Kids with Anxiety
In my travels for workshops and in parent coaching, people often ask me: How can I help my kids with anxiety? In recent years, stressed out kids have become extremely common. We raised an anxious child. Now she has tools and enjoys a great personal and professional life. When she was little, though, she cried […]
5 Steps to Life Balance: You Can Have It – Here’s How
Life balance? What’s that? Do you ever feel like you’re the ball that gets shot into a pinball game almost as soon as you get out of bed? The alarm goes off and BAM. You go flying. You try to jot down a list and scratch off a few things throughout the day. But something […]
Want More Respect—From your partner, your kids, between siblings? Here’s how!
Is your partner attentive? Do your kids respond the first time you ask them to do something? Would you like more cooperation and respect in your family — and even in your work life? It’s all about family communication, but it may not be what you think. I used to get so frustrated when I […]
Help Your Kids Develop the 2 Keys to Happiness According to Researchers Worldwide!
Would you like your children to grow up to be well-adjusted generally happy adults? Researchers have pinpointed two keys to human well-being—no matter how much money you make, education you have, or what culture you come from. And these keys are — drum-roll please — GENEROSITY and GRATITUDE. In fact, scientists can track what happens […]
5 Secrets to Help Kids Do Better in School that May Surprise You
People ask me things like “How do I motivate my kids to do better in school?” or “How Can I help my child get better grades?” or “How do you motivate a lazy child to study?” Below are 5 no-kidding, research and experience-based, surefire ways to boost kids’ brainpower and attitude toward learning for happier […]
6 Simple Steps to Develop Kids’ Independence
Most of us worry, at some point, about how our children will grow up and fare on their own someday—especially in this age of boomerang children (Deloitte 2019). We all know people with kids who have left the nest, floundered in trying to take care of themselves, and have had to come back home, regroup, […]
Screen Time: What Every Parent Should Know—And 5 Ways to Keep Kids’ Brains Healthy
Welcome to Part 4 in the Brain-Friendly Ways to Good Behavior series. You can click on the links at the end of the article if you’d like to take a look at the earlier posts. Screen Time: How to ensure your children’s healthy brain development Screen time seems to be a major concern and constant […]
Use Poor Behavior to Create a Peaceful Home
Welcome to Part 2 (of 4) in the Brain-Friendly Ways to Good Behavior series. If you missed Part 1, you can find it here. In an earlier post, I wrote about my friend saying “Obstacle or Opportunity” whenever I ran into one of life’s little roadblocks. Whenever I’ve consciously chosen to see a setback as […]
How Kids’ Brains Work — 5 Ways to Get Quick Cooperation
Welcome to Part 1 (of 4) in the Brain-Friendly Ways to Good Behavior series. I sure wish we’d had the information parents have access to these days about how children’s brains function and learn. New studies are published almost daily. Our girls had to deal with a lot of trial and error when it came to […]
Boost Kids’ Self-Confidence with these 5 Ways to Teach Respect
Welcome to part 6, the final post in the Brain Stages Emotional Quotient Series. You’ve probably noticed the underlying theme for how to help kids grow into healthy emotional intelligence and improve your own as well is to model and talk about how to respect yourself and show respect to others. The Oxford Dictionary defines respect […]
