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Got Family Dinners?

January 2, 2010

“We are so busy!” Sound familiar? This is the most common excuse for families eating on the go and eating apart. With the holidays coming to an end and our busy lives picking up again with school, late workdays, sports and music lessons, I felt it was a perfect time to talk about the importance [...]

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Moms…..get your juices flowing!

September 11, 2009

From Screamfree Parenting, Tip of the Day by Hal Runkel:
Quote of the Day: ” Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. ” — George Lois, American Art Director
Just about every day, we get requests from people who want to know specifically what to do [...]

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Seven Ways to Get your Kids to Talk to you – For the Fun of it!

September 10, 2009

Another quick post compliments of Jen Singer, “14 Hours ‘Til Bedtime” author. This one gave me another good laugh, so wanted to pass it along to you. She says:
Recently I read a pamphlet entitled, “How to Get Your Teenager to Talk to You.” I don’t know how to get teenagers to talk to you, [...]

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Navigating the road of allowance….. rough road ahead?

September 6, 2009

I have gotten this question quite a bit lately with moms I coach, moms at the soccer field and in chat groups online. It is funny how a simple procedure can end up producing such havoc with parents. Do we give allowance, do we not? Is it tied to chores, or not? [...]

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Humility in parenting? Really…….

August 28, 2009

From Screamfree Parenting by Hal Runkel, LMFT
Quote of the Day: ” The highest reward for man’s toil is not what he gets from it, but what he becomes by it. “
— John Ruskin (1819-1900)

Being ScreamFree on a daily basis is not an easy thing to do. It takes humility, hard work, and a willingness to [...]

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Small things add up……stepping stones of parenting.

August 26, 2009

From Screamfree parenting by Hal Runkel, LMFT
Quote of the Day: ” Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things put together. “
— Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)

This is true of all things, but it is especially true when it comes to raising our children. They may remember the “big” things [...]

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Can you guess the most important job???

August 22, 2009

Parenting is one of life’s most demanding adventures. It’s expensive, exhausting, and on many days exasperating. It forces us to continually grow in ways that we usually don’t want to and it makes even the most confident of us question our competence.

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Do something, even when you think it will be insignificant.

August 21, 2009

” Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. ” — Mahatma Gandhi
If the greatest leader of one of the most revolutionary times had this belief about himself and his own movement, why can’t we?

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