Category Discipline
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
Our top 5 posts of 2017
Every day, the staff of Connected Families goes to work, seeking the wisdom of God, and shaping our resources to fit what we think our readers, parents like you, need most. We spend hours writing, editing, and discussing our content,โฆ
Christmas greetings from Connected Families
Messes. Youโre likely surrounded by a bunch of them. Piles of dishes in the kitchen. Wrapping paper on the floor. Tired and over-sugared children. Stressed relationships. Just like parenting, Christmas is both messy, and beautiful. Today we celebrate Jesus comingโฆ
Questions to Put the THANKS Back in Thanksgiving
โSo, kids, what are you thankful for this Thanksgiving?โ you ask. โMy family, my house, my friends, my dog and Jesus.โ (Same answers as last yearโฆ.) If you think your kids might be open to some deeper thinking this year,โฆ
To Unlock Your Child’s Heart, Just Ask for the Key!
ย If you are reading this, you probably want your kids to know how much you love them. And you probably tell them often that you do. But effectively communicating love is not always so simple. How can we beโฆ