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- [When Love Ends, Parenting Does Not](https://veenuinspires.com/when-love-ends-parenting-does-not/) - There comes a moment in many relationships when forever turns out to be a few years, ten years, maybe fifteen. The person you once believed you would grow old with becomes someone you can barely look at without feeling the sting of disappointment or pain. What once was love, laughter, and shared dreams now feels
- [Parents It’s Time to Wake Up to Teen Slang: Huzz Riz Sus and Beyond](https://veenuinspires.com/parents-its-time-to-wake-up-to-teen-slang-huzz-riz-sus-and-beyond/) - Have you ever overheard your teen using words that make no sense to you? Many of us parents laugh it off or ignore it, thinking it is just another silly phrase or trend. I know as a parent I did the same thing. When I first heard my daughter say the word huzz I honestly
- [Why Your Teen’s Risky Choices Aren’t What They Seem](https://veenuinspires.com/why-your-teens-risky-choices-arent-what-they-seem/) - Parenting a teen today can feel like standing in the middle of a storm, never knowing which way the wind will blow. One minute it’s vaping, the next it’s weed, hookups, or even self-harm. It can leave parents wondering, What happened to my kid? But the truth is, while the behaviors look different, they usually
- [Tony Robbins Parenting: How 18+ Years in the Robbins Environment Shaped the Way I Coach Families](https://veenuinspires.com/tony-robbins-parenting-how-15-years-in-the-robbins-environment-shaped-the-way-i-coach-families/) - Tony Robbins Parenting: How 18+ Years in the Robbins Environment Shaped the Way I Coach Families If there’s one thing that’s shaped me not only as a coach, but as a parent...It’s the 18+ years I’ve spent training inside the Tony Robbins environment. As a trainer for Robbins Research International, I’ve had the privilege of
- [What Every Mom Needs to Hear This Mother's Day](https://veenuinspires.com/what-every-mom-needs-to-hear-this-mothers-day/) - This Mother’s Day, forget the generic posts and pretty quotes. Let's talk about the unseen sacrifices, the emotional labor, and the moments no one claps for—but should. This post isn’t just about celebrating moms. It’s about understanding them, honoring their spirit, and connecting on a soul-deep level. Dear Mama, We See You Let’s get something straight—Mother’s Day
- [Finding Your “Mum Posse”: Why Connection is the New Self-Care](https://veenuinspires.com/finding-your-mum-posse-why-connection-is-the-new-self-care/) - Hey you—yes, the one who just reheated your coffee for the third time, negotiated snack treaties like a diplomat, and Googled “is it normal for toddlers to…” again today. When was the last time you felt truly supported? If your answer is “uhh... what’s that?”—you’re not alone. In 2025, we’re finally saying it out loud: parenting
- [Increasing the Level of Awareness in the Family](https://veenuinspires.com/increasing-the-level-of-awareness-in-the-family-2/) - 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
- [Judgment on Asking Questions](https://veenuinspires.com/judgment-on-asking-questions-2/) - 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
- [Do Our Children Trust Us?](https://veenuinspires.com/do-our-children-trust-us/) - We forget that we need to create that rapport with our kids. Instead of just assuming, “Oh, we're their parents; they're going to talk to us,” how do we create that environment? One thing that I do in the morning when I take my kids to school is ask them, “What kind of day are
- [Calmness and Agitation](https://veenuinspires.com/calmness-and-agitation/) - Let's talk about calmness and agitation. And I don't know, I almost want to call it the rush—the rush of life that's going through them. So it gives them time to create that calmness, to give them space to create their own calmness. And what I also like about it is that it is also
- [Love in Parenthood: Celebrating Valentine's Day as a Family](https://veenuinspires.com/love-in-parenthood-celebrating-valentines-day-as-a-family/) - Valentine’s Day is often associated with romantic love, but for parents, it’s also a wonderful opportunity to celebrate the deep and unconditional love within the family. While date nights and candlelit dinners may be on hold, the joy of parenting brings a new dimension to this special day—one filled with little giggles, warm hugs, and
- [5 Things to Ensure Kids Feel Valued and Important: Flexibility](https://veenuinspires.com/5-things-to-ensure-kids-feel-valued-and-important-flexibility/) - Last but definitely not least, one of the most important things you can do to ensure that your kids feel as important as they are is to be flexible. Be flexible in life. Be flexible because things are going to change. You know the one thing that’s constant in our lives that we can’t change
- [5 Things to Ensure Kids Feel Valued and Important: Self-care](https://veenuinspires.com/5-things-to-ensure-kids-feel-valued-and-important-self-care/) - Today, we'll talk about another thing you can do to ensure that your kids feel just as important as they are. The fourth thing is self-care. A lot of people forget about this, and to be honest, I used to forget about it a lot in my earlier days. I realized I have to put
- [5 Things to Ensure Kids Feel Valued and Important: Delegating](https://veenuinspires.com/5-things-to-ensure-kids-feel-valued-and-important-delegating/) - Let’s talk about the third thing you can do to ensure that your kids feel just as important as they are: delegating. I know it’s cliché to say, “It takes a village,” but it really does. As I mentioned a minute ago, my husband sometimes has to travel for work, so it’s easier for me
- [5 Things to Ensure Kids Feel Valued and Important: Quality Time](https://veenuinspires.com/5-things-to-ensure-kids-feel-valued-and-important-quality-time/) - 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
- [5 Things to Ensure Kids Feel Valued and Important: Prioritizing and Planning](https://veenuinspires.com/5-things-to-ensure-kids-feel-valued-and-important-prioritizing-and-planning/) - 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
- [Judgment on Asking Questions](https://veenuinspires.com/judgment-on-asking-questions/) - 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
- [Increasing the Level of Awareness in the Family](https://veenuinspires.com/increasing-the-level-of-awareness-in-the-family/) - 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
- [Critical Race Theory: Its Impact on Schools and Society](https://veenuinspires.com/critical-race-theory-its-impact-on-schools-and-society/) - 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
- [Killing the Stigma of What People Think Transgenders Are](https://veenuinspires.com/killing-the-stigma-of-what-people-think-transgenders-are/) - 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
- [Helping Children take Opportunities](https://veenuinspires.com/helping-children-take-opportunities/) - 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
- [Fueling Passion](https://veenuinspires.com/fueling-passion/) - 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.
- [Meditation on Parents](https://veenuinspires.com/meditation-on-parents/) - 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
- [From Expectation to Appreciation](https://veenuinspires.com/from-expectation-to-appreciation-2/) - 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
- [Taking Actions](https://veenuinspires.com/taking-actions/) - There were sparks here and there, especially working in the school system. We tell our children, “Dream big!" and “Do it for yourself.” We say these things, but knowing is not enough. Knowledge is nothing without the action behind it, without the embodiment of it. I always say to be curious, not critical. And I
- [A Strategy to Stop Bickering](https://veenuinspires.com/a-strategy-to-stop-bickering/) - There'll be times people say, “Oh, I bet you your family is so great and so peaceful," and I'm like, “Mine? Not so much, not so much." But again, it's what I practice now. So I have six kids, but the twins are eleven. All the kids are out of the house, but the twins
- [Showing up on Yourself](https://veenuinspires.com/showing-up-on-yourself/) - What are the things that we, as parents, are hiding from? The overwork, the judgment, and so many other things. We were all of it. We overdrink, overeat, overdo it, overplease, and overcompensate for all of the stuff that we didn't want to talk about. All of the trauma, all of the darkness, all of
- [Pushing vs. Guiding](https://veenuinspires.com/pushing-vs-guiding/) - As parents, we have to have a good awareness of what factors are playing into our kids. Like, what pressure is there at school? What critical elements are also happening at school? Are those things showing up in the home at all? So as a parent, we have to be really cautious about what you’re
- [Bench to Brilliance](https://veenuinspires.com/bench-to-brilliance/) - If you're points ahead, what a great time to give those kids that have been sitting on the bench the opportunity. Get them in there because you're so far ahead that you know you get to win. Give them a chance to be a part of that win. Now, you not only told your other
- [From Body to Mind: Teaching Kids to Manage Anxiety](https://veenuinspires.com/from-body-to-mind-teaching-kids-to-manage-anxiety/) - Physiology first, think about your physiology when we go into anxiety. Think about what your body's feeling at that moment. How are you breathing? How are your shoulders? And then, what are you focused on? What are your thought processes? What are you telling yourself? And let's just change it. If your shoulders are up,
- [Empowering Kids: Finding Authentic Goals and Overcoming Fear of Disappointment](https://veenuinspires.com/empowering-kids-finding-authentic-goals-and-overcoming-fear-of-disappointment-2/) - There comes a sense, mostly with kids, “Am I going to disappoint someone?” What if I don't reach the outcome of that goal if I don't succeed in that goal? And then, if I disappoint someone, I'm not going to be enough for my parents. I know a lot of the families I work with;
- [The Power of Pen and Paper: Strengthening Parent-Child Bonds](https://veenuinspires.com/the-power-of-pen-and-paper-strengthening-parent-child-bonds/) - One of my favorite suggestions to give to parents if your kid doesn’t have much self-regulation is that one really good starting point is to use a parent-child journal that you write back and forth to each other. What does that do? It gives you a kind of framework, a structure, to build communication with
- [Adulting](https://veenuinspires.com/adulting/) - “Adulting.” We never heard that word when we were kids. What is adulting, right? We just grow up, and we have to do our own thing. And as my children are doing that now, we've seen them haven't had jobs or whatever, and now it's so different from us. We could go to a job
- [Embracing Awkward Silences: Navigating Teenage Interpersonal Skills](https://veenuinspires.com/embracing-awkward-silences-navigating-teenage-interpersonal-skills/) - Teenagers lack interpersonal skills, but can you blame them? It's what they prefer to text, versus even facetiming, so they're not getting, they're not calling, they're not doing in-person hangout sessions, or whenever they are, they're on their phones. So they definitely are not getting the interpersonal skill development that they need, kind of like
- [Empowering Kids: Finding Authentic Goals and Overcoming Fear of Disappointment](https://veenuinspires.com/empowering-kids-finding-authentic-goals-and-overcoming-fear-of-disappointment/) - There comes a sense, mostly with kids, “Am I going to disappoint someone?” "What if I don't reach the outcome of that goal if I don't succeed in that goal? And then, if I disappoint someone, I'm not going to be enough for my parents." I know a lot of the families I work with;
- [From Screens to Dreams: Empowering Teens' Inner Drive](https://veenuinspires.com/from-screens-to-dreams-empowering-teens-inner-drive/) - Where do we help these kids to really go into that internal drive and start recognizing it? So first and foremost, we have to get them off their devices and spend less time on phones, scrolling mindlessly, and watching videos that aren't really adding any value to their lives. Because in my experience, especially more
- [Learning from Mistakes in Teen Development](https://veenuinspires.com/learning-from-mistakes-in-teen-development/) - A lot of parents asked me, like, “What do you mean by safe space? Does your child feel safe sharing with you?” Most parents, we all want to say, “Of course they do. Of course my kids want to talk.” No, not everything. And one of the key things that you brought up several times
- [Continuity of Traditions in the Family](https://veenuinspires.com/continuity-of-traditions-in-the-family/) - What are some of the things or kinds of rituals you guys do with your family? Some of the things that I still do that I got from my mom are that, like, I never grew up cuddling, but, like, on the weekends because my mom was so busy, I would lay in bed with
- [Balancing Support and Independence in Teenagers' Lives](https://veenuinspires.com/balancing-support-and-independence-in-teenagers-lives/) - I read an article about how a lot of teens today actually have less independence than previous generations had. Because now parents can, like, track on their phones. You know, you've got college kids where their parents are contacting the professors, their parents are finding roommates for them, their parents. There's actually a Facebook group
- [From Expectation to Appreciation](https://veenuinspires.com/from-expectation-to-appreciation/) - 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
- [Adolescent Adventures](https://veenuinspires.com/adolescent-adventures/) - What is going on with teenagers nowadays? Like, especially with these teens, “Oh, sex is not a big deal. I'm curious about it.” I'm seeing it more after COVID. Like, once people are able to get out after being closed up for a year, they're going out. But it's so mind-blowing how much they want
- [Meditation to Calm our Kids](https://veenuinspires.com/meditation-to-calm-our-kids/) - This is how we do meditation with kids. We get a very quiet place just sitting. I let kids either sit or lie down. I love to do body scans with kids, which basically focus on one part of their body at a time. So we'll start with the head. I'll be like, “Close your
- [How is Gratitude Growing with Us](https://veenuinspires.com/how-is-gratitude-growing-with-us/) - One of the things that I would say to your children and to my children is that they know that our goal is to set them up to win no matter what. Like, whatever input we're going to give to them, there isn't an agenda. The agenda is so that “You can win in that,"
- [Pressure of Perfection](https://veenuinspires.com/pressure-of-perfection/) - How many kids are under the pressure of perfection? And by no means do I want to sound cliche by this, but we have social media, where only the best survive. Only the best thrive. Those with the greatest numbers are the ones with the greatest qualities. Now, we don't get to see what's behind
- [What's scary about the dark?](https://veenuinspires.com/whats-scary-about-the-dark/) - I was 38 when I got pregnant with twins. And I remember they're like, “Oh, you're high-risk.” And I'm like, “Oh, because I have twins?" They're like, “No, because your age.” And I'm like, “What? My age puts me at high risk?” They're like, “Yeah, over 35, you're considered high risk.” And I'm like, “What
- [Finding Appreciation](https://veenuinspires.com/finding-appreciation/) - Some people put a lot of pressure on themselves to find appreciation for everything. And here's what's strange about that: That's actually an expected appreciation. They have an expectation that there's appreciation. So what are we really talking about, then? We're really talking about and sharing with everyone that the expectation is more of a
- [Family Recharge Day](https://veenuinspires.com/family-recharge-day/) - It took me a long time to learn how to self-care because I thought self-care was selfish, I thought self-care was being lazy, and I thought self-care meant I wasn't getting things done that needed to get done and I was going to get behind. When you change the meaning of something to mean something
- [Setting Up Children at School Tips](https://veenuinspires.com/setting-up-children-at-school-tips/) - We have this routine set up, and then all my children have to do is brush their teeth, get ready, and take their vitamins. They've already packed their bags and everything; grab their lunch, put it in their backpack, and we're ready to go. I am known to be a yeller when I get frustrated
- [Celebrating Mother's Day: A Tribute to Unconditional Love](https://veenuinspires.com/celebrating-mothers-day-a-tribute-to-unconditional-love/) - As Mother's Day approaches, it's time to honor and celebrate the incredible women who have shaped our lives with love, sacrifice, and unwavering support. Whether it's our own mothers, grandmothers, stepmothers, or mother figures, this day is dedicated to expressing gratitude and appreciation for their profound impact. Motherhood is a journey filled with moments of
- [Parents' Role in Sports](https://veenuinspires.com/parents-role-in-sports/) - One of the issues we have is that when our children leave home and walk out the door, who’s influencing them? One of the big influences in our lives are our coaches. These are the people that our kids go to and look up to. Our coaches are like the mack daddy of that sport
- [Power of Celebration](https://veenuinspires.com/power-of-celebration/) - I have this client who was supposed to clean her room, so she created this agreement with her family. She said, “I will clean my room on Fridays, but for the rest of the week, I will just make sure I have no dirty dishes and no trash sitting around my room.” The mom and
- [Loneliness](https://veenuinspires.com/loneliness/) - When we grow up as children and the way we are parented, there’s a lot of us that say, “You know what? I’m not going to parent like that.” I am one of them. My mom was a single parent; she put herself in law school. There’s a lot of yelling and grounding. Our parents
- [Honoring Women's Month: Celebrating the Multifaceted Roles of Women](https://veenuinspires.com/honoring-womens-month-celebrating-the-multifaceted-roles-of-women/) - March isn't just another month; it's a time to commemorate the indomitable spirit and multifaceted roles of women worldwide. As we embrace Women's Month, it's essential to recognize the profound impact women have in various aspects of life – as daughters, sisters, wives, mothers, and so much more. As a Woman To be a woman
- [Differences Between Gender and Sex](https://veenuinspires.com/differences-between-gender-and-sex/) - We are all ignorant when we lack information. I thought gender was the sex when I was born. However, gender is not sex. Gender is a human innate sense of who you are on the scales of masculinity and femininity. Those scales generally describe how society describes masculine and feminine behavior, doing certain things, wearing
- [Parent’s Role in a Child’s Transitioning Gender](https://veenuinspires.com/parents-role-in-a-childs-transitioning-gender/) - Why do we judge? It is because something that we are not aware of gives us anxiety. It’s such a common thing; we do it with everybody. It’s not the gender variant people; we have cases of body-shaming, colorism, and racism. Acceptance is a process. Parents who do have transitioning children may need to up
- [What If We Asked More Questions](https://veenuinspires.com/what-if-we-asked-more-questions/) - When we blame our kids, saying that they didn't do well enough, that they should do better, and that “I'm going to take your phone until you do better,” it's putting in their minds that they've done something wrong. What if we were able to get a little curious and ask more questions? What if
- [Implications of Blame and Shame](https://veenuinspires.com/implications-of-blame-and-shame/) - Blaming and shaming our kids becomes something more than just punishing your child; your child feels bad. Actually, when we blame and shame our children, what we are doing is taking away their self-worth. I have a client I was working with, and his parents told him that he had to get all A's. If
- [What Celebration Does](https://veenuinspires.com/what-celebration-does/) - When we teach our kids to celebrate, when we teach them to be their own raving fans, can you imagine how that will stack through their lifetime? Can you imagine what it would feel like to be able to celebrate themselves and not wait for someone in the audience to celebrate them? I remember being
- [How to Focus on Our Kids’ Strengths vs. their Weaknesses](https://veenuinspires.com/how-to-focus-on-our-kids-strengths-vs-their-weaknesses/) - Parenting doesn't come easy all the time. I get so busy as a parent doing the work that we need to do. Even if we're not working, like we're on the weekends, we're doing chores, we're doing laundry, and all of a sudden your child does something and we stop. What are we doing? We
- [Rewards versus Punishments](https://veenuinspires.com/rewards-versus-punishment/) - A punishment is if your child comes home and they're not doing their chores, they're not doing their homework, and you're taking the iPad away from them, or you're taking something away from them. That is a punishment. If we were going to flip that around and make it a reward, it's because they don't
- [How Do You Know If Your Kids Trust You?](https://veenuinspires.com/how-do-you-know-if-your-kids-trust-you/) - Trust is something that is the foundation of all relationships, not just with you and your business partner, not just with you and your friend, or you and your partner, but also with our children. How are we building trust with our children? Trust is definitely two-way. One of the ways that we want to
- [Strengthen Our Child's Inner Voice](https://veenuinspires.com/strengthen-our-childs-inner-voice/) - When I was a young child, I would always hear the things that I was not doing right instead of all the things that I was doing correctly. Between what I was hearing at home and getting made fun of at school, my inner voice was not very nice to me. My inner voice never
- [Love Languages](https://veenuinspires.com/love-languages/) - How do you know your kids love you? How do you know that when your kids show you love, you show them love? Let's talk about Dr. Gary Chapman's "The 5 Love Languages," acts of service, quality time, touch, gifts, and words of affirmation. Have you already taken the five love languages and know your
- [2024 Success Made Simple: Achieving End Results, Not Just Setting Goals](https://veenuinspires.com/2024-success-made-simple-achieving-end-results-not-just-setting-goals/) - When you look back on your year of 2023, what are you celebrating today? Did you accomplish all you said you would? What about your goals or New Year resolutions? There was a time in my life that I would set goals around this time of year. I would reflect on my past year, looking
- [What It Means to Give Our Kids Gifts](https://veenuinspires.com/what-it-means-to-give-our-kids-gifts/) - What does it mean to give our kids gifts? I saw a lot of different sayings and quotes throughout the holiday in regards to how we know what's too much to give to our kids. How do we give to our kids without them feeling entitled or greedy? How do we give to our kids
- [Lazy Days or Time to Recharge](https://veenuinspires.com/lazy-days-or-time-to-recharge/) - There was a time years and years ago when on those days of my pajama days, I had a husband. I was married two years ago, and he used to call them my lazy days. Lazy day became a word to me. Every time that I would get home from work and I would do
- [Elevating Our Kids' Strengths](https://veenuinspires.com/elevating-our-kids-strengths/) - 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
- [Anxiety and Overwhelm in Setting your Kids up at School](https://veenuinspires.com/anxiety-and-overwhelm-in-setting-your-kids-up-at-school/) - 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
- [Conversation with your Kids](https://veenuinspires.com/conversation-with-your-kids/) - 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
- [Showing the Kids that they are Worth it](https://veenuinspires.com/showing-the-kids-that-they-are-worth-it/) - 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
- [Self-worth](https://veenuinspires.com/self-worth/) - 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
- [How Do We Ask Questions](https://veenuinspires.com/how-do-we-ask-questions/) - 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
- [Conflict with our Kids](https://veenuinspires.com/conflict-with-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
- [Morning Routines](https://veenuinspires.com/morning-routines/) - 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.
- [Reinforcing the Behavior You are Seeing in Your Child](https://veenuinspires.com/reinforcing-the-behavior-you-are-seeing-in-your-child/) - 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
- [Helping our Kids with the Anger that they're Feeling Inside](https://veenuinspires.com/helping-our-kids-with-the-anger-that-theyre-feeling-inside/) - 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
- [Burnout](https://veenuinspires.com/burnout/) - What does burnout look like for us parents? How do we know that we're burned out? How do we know what the signs are? What do we do to get out of burnout? Many of us get stuck in the rhythm of life. We get up each day, have a morning routine, do things with
- [Engaging your Kids in Meaningful Conversation](https://veenuinspires.com/engaging-your-kids-in-meaningful-conversation/) - 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, and that has
- [How Do We Bring Our Kids into Compassion?](https://veenuinspires.com/how-do-we-bring-our-kids-into-compassion/) - How do we bring our kids into compassion? How do we bring people into our lives with compassion? I was talking with one of my clients earlier, and we were talking about how when somebody is talking about other people and bringing them down, like if there is a kid at school, maybe your child
- [How Do We Get Our Kids to Trust Us?](https://veenuinspires.com/how-do-we-get-our-kids-to-trust-us/) - A lot of us parents are always consumed with our kids lying, how we don't trust them, and how we trust our kids. I kind of want to flip the script today. How do our kids trust us? What is it specifically that we can do as parents to gain the trust of our children?
- [Creating Spiritual Child](https://veenuinspires.com/creating-spiritual-child/) - How do we help create a spiritual child? Many people look at spirituality, like my friend Ariane was saying yesterday on my show, with a stereotype that spiritualities are these people with all these crystals, drinking green juices, and wearing white clothes. Spirituality is deeper than that, and as we explained on the show yesterday,
- [How Do We Get Our Kids to Listen to Us](https://veenuinspires.com/how-do-we-get-our-kids-to-listen-to-us/) - How do we get our kids to listen to us? What I have noticed, especially lately with my own twins, is realizing what their formula is. We can really figure out what their formula is when we get really present and listen. There are times that I, too, don't see my own blind spots. I
- [What Stress is in Our Life?](https://veenuinspires.com/what-stress-is-in-our-life/) - It seems that everyone is completely overtaken by the stress in their lives. While I was doing coaching this week with some of my clients, I realized how much stress our kids are feeling and how it shows up in their lives. Stress can show up in our kids' lives through some of the behaviors
- [What Does Self-Worth Mean to Your Kids?](https://veenuinspires.com/what-does-self-worth-mean-to-your-kids/) - Many of our kids don't have self-worth. When you ask them what is meant by 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", how do you achieve it? Do you really know what self-worth means? So I
- [Co-parenting](https://veenuinspires.com/co-parenting/) - Let’s talk about co-parenting. I once was an ex to my husband, and we had children together. Now, I'm married to my husband, who has an ex who's the mother of his children. So I've been on both sides of the coin with this. What I have found out through the experience of having communication
- [Setting Standards for our Kids](https://veenuinspires.com/setting-standards-for-our-kids/) - How do we set the standard for our kids? How do we help our kids understand where the bar is? Some of us may look at grades, and we want our kids to be A students. What does it mean for our kids to be an A student? What does that "A" actually mean? What
- [Opportunity to Understand our Voice](https://veenuinspires.com/opportunity-to-understand-our-voice/) - How is our breath infinite inside of us? We're born with that breath, and with that breath, we make a sound. We spent a lot of time talking about how our voices carry in parenting. One of the things that he was talking about was the discussion of when parents are arguing or voices are
- [How Comparison is the Thief of our Happiness, Excitement, and Joy](https://veenuinspires.com/how-comparison-is-the-thief-of-our-happiness-excitement-and-joy/) - How comparison is the thief of our happiness, excitement, and joy? Some of the feedback I got from some people I talked to was really mind-blowing because, even as adults, we start to see how that is true. How is that true for us? The other side of that, though, is, when is comparison good
- [Changing Traditional Parenting to Unconditional Parenting](https://veenuinspires.com/changing-traditional-parenting-to-unconditional-parenting/) - How do we change our traditional parenting to just unconditionally love our kids? I had an amazing guest on my show yesterday, and this was the topic of discussion. What she was saying made such good sense. When we stop labeling things good and bad and stop rewarding them in order for them to do
- [How Do Kids Feel Fat-Shamed?](https://veenuinspires.com/how-do-kids-feel-fat-shamed/) - How do kids feel fat-shamed? Do they have body dysmorphia? Why is this happening to our kids? What has shifted, if anything, since when we were kids? Yesterday, on my show, I had one of my most fabulous friends and mentors, and she's my business coach, Lisa Liberman-Wang. She wrote a book years ago that
- [When Kids Feel that Their Parents Don’t Trust Them](https://veenuinspires.com/when-kids-feel-that-their-parents-dont-trust-them/) - When did the kids feel that their parents didn't trust them? Some parents think it's all about control; kids just need control, and that is true. Kids do feel like they need control. What happens when we put boundaries on our kids and all of a sudden it's like, "You can't do this." "You can't
- [How Do We Get Out of Our Kids Playing the Victim?](https://veenuinspires.com/how-do-we-get-out-of-our-kids-playing-the-victim/) - How do we get our kids to stop playing the victim? In order to understand how to do that, we first need to understand what it means to be a victim. Are we the victims? Do we show up in our kids' lives as the victim, as "poor me"? "I do everything." "You don't help
- [Listening to Understand](https://veenuinspires.com/listening-to-understand/) - Listening to Understand When we communicate with our children, are we listening to resolve what they're saying? Are we listening to them to be a commentary with them or sometimes blaming them, saying, "If you would have done this, you should have done that?" Why didn't you?" And sometimes, when I know I'm very guilty
- [Good and Bad](https://veenuinspires.com/good-and-bad/) - Good and Bad When we were born, we were given this opportunity to live, and it was all about survival. From the time that we entered the womb until we were about four or five years old, it was all about survival. Survival meant that we were validated for what we did right, which meant
- [Entitled Kids](https://veenuinspires.com/entitled-kids-2/) - Entitled Kids How did we get entitled kids? How did our kids become entitled? And what does that mean about us as parents? I could tell you in the generation that I was born, in the Gen X. We had to work for everything if we wanted something. I remember my best friend and I
- [Taking Care of Our Children's Mental Health](https://veenuinspires.com/taking-care-of-our-childrens-mental-health/) - It is crucial to look after our children's mental health because it can have a big impact on their general wellbeing and success in life. Children's mental health is significant for a number of reasons. First, it negatively impacts their general quality of life and emotional health. Youngsters who have healthy mental health are better
- [What Is the True Meaning of Valentine's Day?](https://veenuinspires.com/what-is-the-true-meaning-of-valentines-day/) - Millions of individuals exchange expressions of affection for their loved ones on a certain day each year. The 14th of February is a day when people openly celebrate desire, passion, friendship, and love, whether it be in a down-on-one-knee situation or through an anonymous letter to a secret lover. And while it would be simple
- [What’s 2023 Going to look like for you?](https://veenuinspires.com/whats-2023-going-to-look-like-for-you/) - What’s 2023 Going to look like for you? How is this year going to be different from any other year? If you don’t know what you want, how will you know the direction you want to go in? It’s like shooting arrows into the air and hoping it will hit a target. What target?
- [I Know Why My 7-Year Old Has Fits](https://veenuinspires.com/i-know-why-my-7-year-old-has-fits/) - I realized the most deepest understanding I've ever had, why my 7 year-old son (he's a twin) has his fits. To be clear, they are not what I would call a meltdown. They typically last for maybe 1-2 minutes. He has them in his room, and when he is done feeling what he wants, he
- [5 Ways The DISC™ Will Enhance Your Relationship With Your Children](https://veenuinspires.com/5-ways-the-disc-will-enhance-your-relationship-with-your-children/) - No one prepares you for the how relationships will be with your child. When we are younger and playing house, all I remember was taking care of my pretend child’s needs. I never worried if they liked me, or if they were going to be mad at me or if we would have power struggles. Then one day
- [Is It Time To Just Give Up?](https://veenuinspires.com/is-it-time-to-just-give-up/) - How many of you spend hours and hours looking for the secrets how to get enough followers, enough likes, or enough engagement? I am raising my hands (both) and feet... Years on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, 1000's of posts, 2 books, $100's and $1000's of dollars on programs, classes, trainings, mentors, and coaches... and still only
- [Do You Have Time For Me, Now?](https://veenuinspires.com/do-you-have-time-for-me-now/) - As a parent expert, I am constantly inviting parents to take time for them and their kids. When I say time, "quality time." Let me define what quality time is. It is that time where nothing else is important, but the time you have being present in the moment. You do not have the tv
- [Imperfect, Perfect Parent](https://veenuinspires.com/imperfect-perfect-parent/) - When I had kids, all I could think about is not screwing them up. I defined screwing them up as them not feeling loved, not knowing how to love, not knowing how to feel good about themselves, making them feel they are not enough, or making them feel sad or unwanted. My definition came from
- [How Did We Get Here?](https://veenuinspires.com/how-did-we-get-here/) - 30 hours into a 13 hour coaching contract and it is all worth it to see the transformation that occurred today. A family who has struggled for years with communication, feeling unheard, unseen, criticized, untrusted, betrayed, put down, and a fight with cancer, now sees the cause and can now repair and rebuild the relationship
- [Solving Tomorrows Problems By Teaching Today's Children](https://veenuinspires.com/solving-tomorrows-problems-by-teaching-todays-children/) - When we look at the world, and we see the pain, we have three choices: Add to it; Ignore it, or Solve it. What I have learned through the years of being in the midst of those hurting, watching those hurt, watching those that harm, watching those that ignore and watching those that do what
- [Are You Sorry, Or Are You Aware?](https://veenuinspires.com/are-you-sorry-or-are-you-aware/) - For years we have taught our kids when they hurt someone to say sorry. When they do something wrong to say sorry. If they accidentally do something, say sorry. When they make a mistake, say sorry. Are we teaching them the value of this word? Or have we just given them a word to use
- [My Child Has Anxiety, I Think...](https://veenuinspires.com/my-child-has-anxiety-i-think/) - Anxiety is a feeling that occurs when there is uncertainty about a situation, environment, activity. Most people think that anxiety is about panic attacks. Panic attacks actually are just a symptom of anxiety. It is the way the body reacts to the anxiety it is feeling. Think of it as the body protecting itself. So
- [If You Could Hear These Scars What Would They Say?](https://veenuinspires.com/you-could-hear-these-scars/) - I remember the day I first cut. It was like a wave of emotions just flowing out of my body. I could breathe again. I didn't feel the heaviness on my chest. The literal pain in my heart was gone. Gone for that brief moment. It was the 1st time, I felt in control of
- [EMOTIONAL RELEASE](https://veenuinspires.com/emotional-release/) - If we go back to when our child is 1st born, how do you know if they are hungry, uncomfortable, hurting, sleepy, etc.? They cry. Crying is the 1st way a child learns to communicate with others. Crying is the way the child learns how to build a relationship with their parent and caretakers. Crying
- [Is Dairy good for kids?](https://veenuinspires.com/is-dairy-good-for-kids/) - Milk is often touted as being essential for strong bones and overall health, but what does the science say about dairy products and their impact on kids? Did you know? I grew up drinking cow’s milk. I was born in America and raised on store-bought pasteurized whole milk. I didn’t know that it wasn’t good
- [Nanny Connie is Wrong in Her Approach](https://veenuinspires.com/nanny-connie-is-wrong-in-her-approach/) - Everyone has their own approach. As parents we want to know we are "doing it right." A better question to ask, "what is right?" What is the outcome that we want to see as parents? For me a parent of 4, I want to know that I am giving the best guidance I can to
- [13 Reasons Why This Movie Is NEEDED](https://veenuinspires.com/13-reasons-why-this-movie-is-needed/) - The Movie That Has Sparked A Lot Of Controversy Is Actually Much Needed I am very sad to hear of the passing of teenagers. I hear about teen suicide almost on a daily basis. There are many reasons why someone wants to take their life. I’ve seen as recently as of today how many want
- [The Best Way To Teach Your Child Is To Show Your Child](https://veenuinspires.com/the-best-way-to-teach-your-child-is-to-show-your-child/) - What Are you Modeling? What kind of role model are you being for your child? How you show up in your life is a reflection in your children. I look at my children the older ones and the young ones I recognize so many different behaviors. Some I love and others that I’m curious where
- [Are You Respected By Your Children?](https://veenuinspires.com/are-you-respected-by-your-children/) - Are You Respected By Your Children? What does that mean to you as a parent? What does respect mean to your child? When I work with families the top thing I’ve seen is that their children yell at them, or ignore them when asked to do something. This behavior is accepted. Yes it really is.
- [Self Harm is Not the Only Option, Re-write Your Story](https://veenuinspires.com/self-harm-is-not-the-only-option-re-write-your-story/) - Self harm is a private behavior. Due to this, it is difficult to get accurate statistics. Studies have shown that 1 out of 5 girls are cutting and 1 out of 7 boys are inflicting self-harm. Two million reports have been made, but how accurate are these studies? So many incidences go unreported. This gives
- [The Peaceful Family Home – No More Tantrums or Meltdowns](https://veenuinspires.com/the-peaceful-family-home-no-more-tantrums-or-meltdowns/) - Do you have a peaceful family home? How many tantrums occur in a day? Is there power struggles going on? Are you about to pull out your hair because you do not know what to do? What would it look like if you did not have to yell anymore? Great News, I’ve been where you
- [Is Bullying Affecting Your Child’s Grades](https://veenuinspires.com/is-bullying-affecting-your-childs-grades/) - Have you seen a difference in your child’s grades? Do you know if they are being bullied. Yesterday NBC and CNN were talking about this. What’s great? There is more awareness to the affects of bullying that is happening. Some might believe it’s an social/emotional affect however, it is more than just that. “A study was
- [They Speak What They Hear](https://veenuinspires.com/they-speak-what-they-hear/) - As parents we are the role model. We need to think of not only what we are saying to our children or in front of them, but also how we are saying things. Our children will speak what they hear and how they hear it. Do you want your kids using the same tone and
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