Misbehaving Children: When Your Child’s Bad Behavior Is Really His Best: Video
Sometimes what looks like bad behavior is actually a child doing their very best. Watch this video to understand the real message behind the misbehavior.
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Potty Training: My Child Spends To Much Time In The Bathroom
Dear Adina, We have a problem with our 4 year old. We need help getting her out of the bathroom in a decent amount of time. I fully understand that potty training is a very sensitive issue for children so we’ve treaded carefully. Our daughter finally has been potty trained for about 7-8 months now, (despite […]
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Misbehaving Children: One Simple Way To Help Our Kids Behave: Video
Behavior issues do not always need big solutions. In this video, Adina shares one simple, gentle approach to help children understand and choose better behavior.
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How To Talk To Kids: Another Simple Way To Help Your Child Listen
I know that I am always looking for great ways to engage my kids cooperation. I know from the questions that I receive that many parents are on the lookout for some great skills to use to help their kids listen. The other day I sent out a link to a post about a simple […]
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Sibling Rivalry: Simple Solutions For Every Day Squabbles: Video
Daily sibling squabbles do not have to escalate. Watch this video for simple, practical solutions to the most common sibling conflicts that happen at home.
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The Helicopter and the Rocket Ship: Learn To Parent With Balance
Posted by our Guest Blogger: Ruchi Koval Much ink has been spilled on the altar of abolishing the Helicopter Parent: that mom (or dad) who always hovers worriedly nearby, ready, willing and able to don spandex tights and a cape and SWOOP down to save the day! With forgotten lunches, neglected book reports and excuse […]
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All I Want For Mother’s Day: Confessions Of A Parent Educator
This is what I want for Mother’s Day. I want to be able to say what I want and I want to say exactly what is on my mind. The other day, I was not in the best of moods. My husband said, “What can I help you with?” I said, “I just need to […]
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Is Your Child Struggling In School? A Positive Attitude Helps
My parents were pretty laid back about school. I don’t remember them ever bothering me about homework. I think they even once said, “Forget homework, go outside and play.” Because of that, I have never gotten so uptight about schoolwork with my kids. I feel like it is their schoolwork and it is their responsibility. […]
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Is Your Child Struggling With School? Foster A Life Long Love Of Learning
I think it would be safe to say, that as parents we all value education. We all want our kids to work hard and do well in school so that they will have a better chance of achieving their dreams. Well, this might come as a surprise, it is not how well you do in […]
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Defiant Kids: Teach Them To Read Your Lips
As I mentioned in our last post after I deliver a class I always remember somethings that I would have like to have said. I would like to expand on one more point from our class: When Your Child Is Defiant: Simple Ways To Avoid Power Struggles: I mentioned that kids who are defiant are […]
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Defiant Kids: What I Forgot To Say…
Last week was our class: When Your Child Is Defiant: Simple Ways To Avoid Power Struggles. I mentioned last time that after I give a class, I always remember some things that I forgot to say, that I wished I would have said or things that I would have said differently. I also mentioned that […]
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Is Your Child Struggling In School: Are Bad Teachers Good For Our Kids?
The following story was told to me by one of my clients: My son was in a class with a teacher, who lets just say is “Old School”. He was having a hard time but I kept on saying to myself that bad teachers are good for kids. As long as I support him he […]
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Kids Not Listening: Learn To Help Them Listen: Video
If you feel like you are constantly repeating yourself, this video is for you. Learn simple, effective techniques to help your kids actually listen the first time.
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Problem Solving Techniques For Kids: The Broken Computer
As I said in a previous post, working with kids to solve the little and big domestic problems is a great alternative to accusing, giving commands and punishing kids. Here is another story on how this works: Our family laptop computer that we keep on the desk in the kitchen was not working. It […]
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When Your Child Is Defiant: Sneak Peek At What We Learned Last Night
We had a great LIVE class last night: “When Your Child Is Defiant: Simple Ways To Avoid Power Struggles.” We went a little bit over the time allotted because of all the information that we shared. We spent a full 1 hour and 45 minutes discussing our exciting topic. A shout out to all those […]
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Raising Emotionally Healthy Kids: Part 2
In a previous post we discussed all the benefits of raising emotionally healthy children and some ways that we can do that. Here are 4 more ways to promote our kids emotional health: 1. Let them have choices: I know I talk about choices a lot! It is one of those things that is great […]
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Raising Emotionally Healthy Kids: Part 1
As parents we know the the importance of raising emotionally healthy kids. We all want our kids to be confident and feel competent. We want them to be able to handle all the challenges that life throws their way. Here are 3 more ways that we can promote emotional health in our children: 1. Stick […]
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Kids Not Listening? Now You Can Find Out Why!
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The Best Educational Toys: The Games We Love
There are lots of educational toys and games that we love in our family. Really, some of them I loved to play with as kids and I just bought them for my family. These are great because they have...
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The Quiet Child: My Grandson Won’t Talk To Me
My 5 year old grandson comes to visit infrequently, about twice a year. Because we don’t spend a lot of time together, I want to make the mosts of his visits. He is a very quiet kid. It takes a long time for him to warm up, but even a week into his visit, he […]
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