Teenager 101: Help for Parents
If you have a teenager, you may be experiencing what most parents are: Where’s the connection They don’t like me I don’t like them...
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Parental Guidance 101: Finding Your Zone of Genius
Parental guidance can mean a broad range of things. So, let’s get on the same page! This is a quick 101 on how to find the style of...
How I REALLY Deal with Conflict
Of course. Yesterday I posted about how to avoid (unproductive) conflict and how my son and I navigate it. The Murphy’s Law of Being Mom...
How to Deal with Conflict: 15 Ways I Avoid (Unproductive) Conflict With My Teen
I have tons of theories about parenting and how to deal with conflict. But mostly, I end up winging it – but super smart winging it based...
How To Empower Your Kid(s)
One of my phenomenal mom friends on Facebook posted about her growing teen children – she has four, two are teens. She’s intersecting...
Senior Year Half Way Through
This is part of series of posts I started to countdown my son leaving for college. Click here for the first post. I have avoided writing...
21 Lessons From My Mom Life
Celebrating Post #100!!!! I have random truths floating in my head most days… It’s mostly things I keep working on/ telling myself/...
Parenting Tip: Help Me Understand My Child
Help Me Understand My Child When moms come to me they are often at wits end. One of the biggest requests I get is: Help me understand my...
First Week of Junior Year of High School
First week of 11th grade has it’s own realities that set in after a while… I will never have another first week of school for 11th grade,...
115 Wednesdays: #115
115 Wednesdays: Countdown to College Begins This past year seems like blurry moments…. — A year ago, the Department of Motor Vehicles...
Trusting Your Kid
A few weeks ago my 15 year old son got his driver’s permit. I took a photo of him at the motor vehicle office. His smile said it all. It...
Daring Greatly and Redefining Parenthood
Dr. Brene Brown has a new book out called, Daring Greatly (aka: The Lost Mom Manual). I’m inhaling it, sleeping with it under my bed, and...
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