The Four “F’s” of Summer Parenting

I brought back a popular post from a few years ago to share with you.  I am away at the International Young Living Convention in Salt Lake City and honestly, I had all good intentions about writing a blog post…

The Need for Consistency in Parenting – 5 Tips

Consistency: how many parents sigh or roll their eyes when they hear that word?  I know, I get it a lot.  That’s because consistency is tough, and most parents don’t feel like they are nearly consistent enough.  This is probably…

Back To School Study Habit Tips

Are you in the midst of battling homework and setting up expectations for the school year?   It can be rough, especially if you have a child who is dead set on trying to make his own path and go…

Four Tips to Better Consistency

You find yourself exhausted and instead of going to battle with your 6 year old about not running around the house jumping up and down on the furniture, you just decide to let it go.  Yesterday your toddler had to…

All Fun and Games

Learning never ceases during the course of our lifetime – we are always obtaining new skills.  It can be difficult to find creative ways to keep your child learning during the summer.  A lot is written about that familiar “summer…

Juggling the Joys of Motherhood

Becoming a mother can certainly tip the scales in one direction – often in the direction of exhaustion and overwhelm.  This is true for all seasons of motherhood – I can remember thinking that things will get easier as my…

The One Thing

We can easily become overwhelmed with the behavior of our kids; we get frustrated, feel like a failure and get really angry when they continue to do the things we’ve asked them to stop.

No Fail Parenting Phrases

With kids, especially teenagers, you might think that they were born to be lawyers. We tease my older son when he begins to “lawyer speak” us and use terms and suggest we aren’t specific enough.  We can laugh now, but…

Managing Meltdowns

I am back in the season of temper tantrums – wheeeee!   I’ve heard from a lot of you as well, struggling with how to handle melt-downs from our little ones in a way where we are not losing our cool. …

6 Common Parenting Mistakes

Let’s face it – children don’t come with instruction booklets.  Over my years of parenting I’ve had my opportunity to make plenty!