We’re so busy in our lives that we don’t realize that we are spending more time criticizing our kids than trying to guide them to do the right thing. Sometimes we’re commanding, sometimes we’re demanding. I’m just going to be honest; that was me. I used to be like that a lot of years ago with my two boys, who …

School started just around the corner; for me, it had started a couple weeks ago, and I have some clients that started this week and next week. I thought I would talk about how we can reduce the anxiety our kids feel. How do we reduce that overwhelm, or find ways that we could actually improve their success at school? …

How many of you actually feel that it’s easy to have a conversation with your kids? I’m not just talking about a conversation of “How’s your day?” “It’s good,” “Okay, great! What do you want to do today?” I’m talking about a real conversation that has engagement, that has emotion in it, that has thought to it. A lot of …

I read a statement the other day, I think it was on facebook or instagram and it said that when your child thinks that you sacrifice everything for them, all they get is feeling like they’re a burden. At first I was like, ”Yeah, yeah, yeah. I agree with that.” Then I thought about it and I’m like, “Well no.”  …

When I ask my kids, “What is self-worth?” They will say, “Well, it’s how I feel about myself.” “It’s how I love myself.” “It’s what I think about myself.” All of that yes and no? How do you achieve it? Do you really know what self-worth means? Then I asked them, “How do you know you matter? Who do you …

How do we ask questions? For some of you that have listened to me for a while, or maybe I have coached you, or we’ve had a discussion, you know one of my favorite sayings is, “Be curious, not critical.” What we’re going to talk about today has to do with the way that we ask questions to our kids, …

I was having a conversation with somebody earlier today, and we talked about the different ways that conflict occurs with our children. I’m going to tell you that, as a mom of six, this is so true. If you really hear what I’m saying today, this can really shift the conflicts that you’re having in your house with your children. …

Morning routines still become one of the biggest challenges every day. Out of my six kids, I have raised four of them because two of them are my stepdaughters, so of the four that I’ve raised, morning and evening routines have probably got to be the most stressful that I’ve encountered thus far in parenting. Let me tell you what …

How do you know when you, as the parent, are reinforcing the behavior you’re seeing in your child that drives you absolutely bonkers? It doesn’t matter if you have a younger kid, an older kid, or maybe even a teenager. Think about a time when there’s some type of behavior that’s going on with your child and it just drives …

How do we help our kids with the anger that they’re feeling inside? Whether they’re young and they’re expressing it through yelling, throwing things, hitting, or the attitude we get as they get older when they’re answering us, sometimes their anger shows up if we ask them to do something, then they ignore us. What is anger? For kids, a …