Tag: Parenting
Everything You Need to Know About Parenting Toddlers
Everything you need to know about parenting toddlers is right here in this blog. Who do I think I am? I'm four years into...
Cowgirl Parenting–How I Wrangle the Five Kids in my Rodeo
I learned to wrangle my five kids on the front lines of everyday parenting--sometimes I feel like I'm at the rodeo. Instituting solid parenting...
Parenting and Criticism in the Age of Technology
Parental criticism has been around as long has there have been unruly children. I'm pretty sure that when cavemoms brought their brood to dine on...
What Scares Me About Raising Sons
I want to have a conversation with my sons about consent, peer pressure, and rape.
And I don’t want to have the typical conversation about...
When Wine is NOT Enough: How to Cope With Whiny Kids
This post doesn't address how you can better manage your child's behavior, nor does it include advice on how to be a better, more organized,...
Dear Time, Slow Down: Leaping Into Kindergarten
Dear time, please slow down! Just for a little while longer. She’s my little girl and now she is on her way to becoming...
7 Reasons to Travel With Your Kids
I know many parents avoid traveling with young kids, thinking it will be easier when they get older. I know that thinking about the...
Three Ways to Stop Comparing Yourself to Others
I was always a competitive person. I have, what you call, drive. Like, straight-As, run-until-I-puke drive. It's one of my favorite things about myself:...
Darkness in Our Nation: Will We Be Brothers and Sisters or...
I am exhausted. I am drained.
I cannot imagine what the families and loved ones of those gone are enduring. What kind of world am I raising...
Putting Sound Behavioral Theory Into Practice
My friend sent out a frantic email a few weeks after having a new baby. Her toddler had lost her mind and my friend...
