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 […]
11 Ways to Help You and Your Kids Get the Sleep You Need
11 Ways to Help You and Your Kids Get the Sleep You Need How can you and your kids get the sleep you need consistently for a healthy brain? We get busy and skimp on sleep. Sometimes our minds race, and we CAN’T sleep. Nightmares might play a role in depriving us of the sleep […]
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 For Parents — Because most of us could use support on our parenting journey
Do you get frustrated with your kids and sometimes with yourself? Do your kids have problems or behaviors you wish you dealt with better? Do you ever wish your home life was more fun? Maybe you just want to know how you can help your kids reach their potential. If you feel like you have […]
Do This to Supercharge Your Kids’ Learning – And Your Brain Power too!
Would you like to boost your kids’ learning and help them feel better emotionally and physically? How ‘bout you? Would you like to have more energy and think more clearly? Try doing 10 minutes of aerobic exercise together in the morning, before school and work. Researchers in Canada set out to discover how little exercise […]
You Don’t Have to Be a Harried Parent!
5 simple things that will give you a more joyful Life with kids If you’re anything like me, I used to think life would get easier when the kids went back to school. Then juggling work with kids’ extracurriculars, multiple schedules, homework, making meals, doing laundry, and trying to have regular two-way conversations with my […]
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, […]
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 […]
