Category Discipline
5 Ways to T.E.A.C.H. Your Kids Values
There are lots of things we want our kids to learn, from how to ride a bike to how to be a faith-filled, responsible adult. Some things (like getting dressed) are easy to teach. But as a follower of Christ,โฆ
The Four Strengths of Every Great Family
Jeremy Lee, from D6 Family Podcast, interviews the co-founders of Connected Families, Jim & Lynne Jackson. During this 20 minute podcast, Jim and Lynne share the Connected Families parenting framework, which focuses on building a strong parent-child relationship. If youโฆ
How Oranges Can Teach Compromise
Your kids are arguing – (again!) – about what game to play, who got the bigger serving of pie, and who had more time playing video games. You want to teach your kids the valuable skill of compromise, but youโฆ
Tired of Sibling Fighting?
Parents of siblingsโฆ did you ever think it would be this hard? You imagined your kiddos as best friends, being there for each other throughout life, and always having each otherโs backs. And yet, here they are, yo-yo-ing from bestโฆ
Iโm a Therapist, But I Choose to Coach. Hereโs Why.
Coaching parents has been the greatest joy in my professional life! Iโve seen countless kidsโ lives change for good while witnessing greater parent confidence and satisfaction. Those results are why I stopped providing therapeutic services to teens and began coachingโฆ
Feel Like Swearing at Your Kids? This Is for You.
As a parent coach, primarily working with parents of teens, Iโve found commonality in the issues parents want to addressโespecially wanting their kids to obey. NOW! For the past 20 years, Iโve been doing some form of helping parents andโฆ
Are We Dealing Drugs To Our Children?
Did you know you may inadvertently be dealing โdrugsโ to your children? Dopamine has been called the brainโs โpleasure chemical.โ It is released when pleasure is experienced. It creates healthy motivation to pursue various life-giving pleasures such as accomplishing aโฆ
From Power Struggles to Peace at Meals
help for kids who are picky
Tired of Not Feeling Christian Enough?
Here’s a confession: throughout my life I have periodically wrestled with the suspicion I was somehow “not Christian enough.” In some ways, it sounds silly, because being a Christian isn’t a quantity that you can have more or less of.โฆ
Need vs Want
I plopped down on the couch with a friend and lamented about my latest parenting challenge. โI just need to learn to calmly follow through with a clear consequence. I keep getting in this nagging cycle. I need to stopโฆ