Summer is Coming—The Perfect Opportunity!
It’s Here! Everything You Need to Raise Successful Kids in Today’s Wild World! The 2021/2022 school year has been tough for most of us—whether we have kids in preschool or high school, or anywhere in between! Would you like to enjoy summertime more than ever with your kids? Even better, would you like them to […]
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 […]
Mindfulness for Kids: What is It? Why Do It? How to Start
Do you want to improve your child’s confidence and overall mental health? Studies show that practicing mindfulness for kids improves kids’ mental health and is teaching children resilience. So, what is mindfulness? The Oxford Dictionary says: Mindfulness is “a mental state achieved by concentrating on the present moment, while calmly accepting the feelings and thoughts […]
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 […]
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 […]
6 Ways to Build Kids’ Independence–and Confidence
6 Ways to Build Kids’ Independence
Give Yourself and Your Kids Grace
Give yourself grace? Give your kids grace? What does that mean? The pandemic has been rough on a lot of families. Thankfully, as more people get the COVID vaccine, we are beginning to cautiously venture outside our homes. Camps and activities for kids are becoming available during the summer. Even better, an increasing number of […]
