The second thing you can do to ensure that your kids feel as important as they are is to focus on quality versus quantity. What does quality time look like? It’s not about thinking, “Oh! I spent eight hours working, so I need to give my kids eight hours.” When we spend quality time with our kids and are fully …

Today, I’m going to talk to you about one of the five things you can do to ensure that your kids feel as important as they are: prioritizing and planning. One of the things I do every day is look at my schedule when I wake up and identify what is non-negotiable. The first priorities are my kids’ school and …

There’s no judgment about the questions. And I’ve always told parents, “Are you having a meaningful conversation with your kid?” And most people can’t remember the last time they did, but they definitely can remember the last time they had conflict. It is important to have a way of inviting conversation because, back in the day, as a busy mom, …

How do parents keep their kids safe and yet still allow them enough space to learn what they need to learn? The secret is awareness. We need to teach our kids a level of awareness that other kids don’t have or that other people don’t have. And it’s a muscle. Awareness gives you clarity. Clarity gives you focus. Focus gives …

What is going on in schools today? The hoped outcome is to educate parents who have questions about Critical Race Theory (CRT). Many parents may have done some research on the topic but ended up confused due to the information they found online. The first 50 hits on Google often state that CRT is great and wonderful, claiming it helps …

How do we kill the stigma of what people think transgender people are? Let’s start with awareness. We should understand that when a human baby is born, that baby can be born in three ways. One can have a male body child, a female body child, or an intersex body child. The term “intersex” wasn’t used frequently. In the 1970s, …

A lot of the kids that I do have the privilege of coaching don’t know their purpose. And that’s why parents contacted me. It’s like, “Can you coach my kid? What’s their purpose? What’s their passion right now?” Kids need to know what opportunities lie ahead of them. And so, as parents, the more we know, the better we can …

We needed to strengthen our muscles by showing that we were interested in things that we were terribly disinterested in. As parents, we need to come up with different strategies, like what students couldn’t benefit from discovering that there’s alternative techniques and they can choose the ones that work best for them and apply them. To give you an example, …

Meditation with parents is a more in-depth process because we’ve had such a longer history. So I do have a big family history with my parents. If I do have a parent who is having a lot of anxiety or depression, I might really get to the root of it, and then I might refer them to work with someone …

Exchanging expectations or trading them in for appreciation. I never understood what it meant until I started to realize all the times that I was angry, all the times that I was frustrated, and all the times that I felt like I didn’t have control over things. And I realized that there were so many expectations that I had from …