By October, some families discover that homework apparently requires two people: a child to avoid it and a parent to remain concerned about it. You remind, encourage, check, and remind again. Somehow, you seem more invested in fifth grade than the person attending it....
The teacher describes your child as pleasant, cooperative, and helpful. You briefly wonder whether there has been a clerical error. At home, the backpack lands, complaints begin, a meltdown follows, and a simple request becomes a major production. You listen,...
There is a peculiar habit many of us have mastered. We spend years building a life we hope will make us happy-and then become too busy improving it to actually live it. We need more money. More success. Better health. More productivity. More recognition. Apparently,...
"Let me just finish this." It is a reasonable thing to say. We have work to complete, messages to answer and responsibilities that do not disappear because someone wants our attention. Yet we can say those five words so often that they become the way we live. We...
I recently came across a cocktail napkin bearing this wonderfully honest sentence: "I am not arguing. I am just explaining why I am right." It is funny because most of us recognize the character immediately. It may be a spouse, coworker or that relative who brings...
Most of us have become remarkably skilled at postponing our lives. We tell ourselves that things will settle down after this week, after the project is finished, after the kids get through this phase, after the house is organized, after the vacation, after retirement,...
For a few glorious weeks each summer, Saratoga celebrates horses bred to run. Speed is admired. Racing is encouraged. Thousands arrive hoping to watch something move very, very fast. Unfortunately, some of our brains seem to believe they have also entered the races at...
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the Sacred Pause-the brief space we create so that we do not simply react. It is about stopping long enough to settle ourselves and respond intentionally. A choice point is related, but broader. It is the moment when we recognize that...
Last week, I wrote about the sacred pause - that small but powerful space between what happens and how we respond. It is the moment when we can choose wisdom over impulse, connection over being right, and calm over escalation. But let's be honest: sometimes we miss...
Almost everything I have ever regretted saying came from the same mistake: I failed to pause. The words usually arrived quickly, confidently and with impressive internal justification. In that moment, my mind assured me that the truth needed defending, the...
In Part One, we looked at a common summer problem. Many children get plenty of entertainment, plenty of freedom, and plenty of leisure, but too little effort, responsibility, contribution, and growth. Summer becomes fun, yes. But it also becomes a season where basic...
Most of us have learned this the hard way: one bad night of sleep, and life feels heavier. Small problems grow teeth. Patience gets thin. Worries get louder. The brain begins treating a forgotten password or a slow driver as if civilization itself is in decline. This...
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But you just aren’t sure how you can help your child lose the unwanted weight and feel good about themselves. You just aren’t sure how you can encourage them to get healthy and develop good eating habits.
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And then there are the ballistic, severe out-of-control tantrums! Such extreme tantrums evolve for various reasons. Frequently, I see these extreme tantrums with certain strong-willed or more oppositional children.
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They think they should be intervening earlier to resolve issues for their children. But most parents don’t intervene until the conflict escalates, then they yell and threaten.
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Getting a handle on the core parenting tactics that turn the picky eater into a healthy eater is priority one.
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There are a variety of reasons that could cause such an escalation in anger. The purpose of this article is to dispel a critical myth, and to make certain that parents become aware of the patterns of their own behavior, which can increase and escalate anger.
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