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 with my ex-husband about our …

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 about the way that we …

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 raised. The role modeling that …

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 as a measurement tool? We’re …

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 something, we teach them things …

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 was an international bestseller called …

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 do that.” “I need your …

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 me.” “I have to do …

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 of this, I’ll say, “I …

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 that we were loved and …