“Go To Your Room! Right NOW!”
What actually happens when you send your child to their room
Category Family Conflict
Healthy Conflict Resolution in Adult Relationships
Applying the Connected Families Framework to marriage
My Co-Parent Sees Things Differently | Ep. 90
What do you do when you disagree with your partner about how to parent? Perhaps it is even causing a rift in your family. You feel strongly about how to parent your kids, but feel stuck on knowing how to…
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Finding Beauty in the Messes
Messes. Today and over the next 48 hours, you’ll likely be 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…
Receiving Unsolicited Parenting Advice?
4 Tips to Respond with Confidence
Sibling Squabbles: How to Stop Kids Fighting By Intervening Wisely
They’re at it again. You can hear them in the next room and you want it to stop. Now. Your children are having a heated debate that seems to be escalating by the minute. Should you intervene in sibling squabbles?…
How to Take Advantage of Sibling Rivalry to Explain Emotions and Feelings to a Child
Few things can be more frustrating as a parent than trying to mediate sibling rivalry. You want your kids to be friends but instead they are fighting, badgering, and teasing each other. It feels like you are getting nowhere! You…
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Are Your Marriage Goals Actually Selfish?
Perhaps you’ve read books, been to seminars, listened to sermons or podcasts expounding on the benefits of marriage goals. Maybe you’ve even been inspired to set your own marriage goals. What even is a marriage goal? To just “not get…
Thinking About How to Fix Your Marriage? Try This. | Ep. 52
Do you ever feel like you want to try and fix your marriage? Or change something about your spouse? The solution to this challenge might surprise you! In this podcast, Jim and Lynne Jackson (co-founders of Connected Families) are hosted…
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Family Gatherings | Ep. 16
You’ve just had a family event and might still be recovering from the overt or passive-aggressive comments from extended family about your kids’ behavior and your parenting choices. Family gatherings can be HARD…especially if we sense that external pressure is…
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