Parenting
Kids change everything—including your marriage. From discipline battles to feeling like co-parents instead of partners, this section helps you navigate parenting without losing your connection (or your sanity).
Parenting
Kids change everything—including your marriage. From discipline battles to feeling like co-parents instead of partners, this section helps you navigate parenting without losing your connection (or your sanity).
3 Tips to Make Getting Your Children Off to School Easier
Good morning! I hope you are having better bedtimes. Now it’s time to get your children out of bed and off to school. Here are some tips to help de-stress mornings at your house. Help your child establish the habit of laying out his/her clothes the night before. This...
5 Tips for Managing Back-to-School Stress
Going back to school is exciting, but it can also be stressful. Your family may have gotten into their summer routine, which involves sleeping later and being a bit more relaxed about schedules, etc. Here are some ways which may help you go back to school without all...
5 Back-to-School Life Hacks
Alright, parents, it's that time of year again: Back-to-School. You've had your summer bliss, or more likely, your summer chaos, and now it's time to pretend we're all going to be organized, well-rested, and generally sane. I've seen firsthand how the annual...
Your Second Marriage and Children
Are you embarking on a second marriage, especially when children from a previous union are part of the package? If so, settle in, because what you're about to experience isn't your average "first marriage" fairytale. It's a whole different beast, and understanding...
Mother’s Day Sounds Lovely in Theory
The truth is Mother’s Day is a set-up for disappointment. It sounds s lovely in theory: a national celebration of moms, a day filled with gratitude, pampering, and maybe breakfast in bed with a flower plucked from the yard (bonus points if it’s not a dandelion). But...
It’s Perfectly Normal to Want to Kill Your Children
Let me be clear: no, I am not condoning murder, or child abuse! I’m just saying children, whether they are your biological, adopted, or stepchildren, can drive you crazy almost faster than anyone else. This doesn’t mean you are a bad person because you wish they would...
Four Tips to Make Your Child’s Bedtime Easier
If you are having trouble getting your kids to go to bed (and stay there!) you are not alone. While bedtime has always presented challenges, but now there there are so many more distractions that parents have to deal with. I hope these tips help. Decide on what time...
Wrong Belief #5: I Need to Make Sure My Child Is Happy
Your job as a parent is not to make your child happy. Your job is to make your job obsolete one day. Your job is to raise independent, capable children. Will they be perfect when they reach the age of 21? No. But they will be ready to make their own decisions, learn...
One reason you are not having sex
Most people have problems in the bedroom at one time or another. And sometimes those problems can be complicated. But SOMETIMES it’s pretty straightforward. Ahem. Do your children come into your bedroom quite often? Do they climb into bed with you when they are...
10 Reasons Why Your Kid Won’t Unload the Dishwasher
You may think your child is rebellious, lazy, or possibly passive aggressive because unloading the dishwasher has turned into a battleground of epic proportions. Consider there could be other reasons for the reluctance to do this task. For example… The dishwasher...
A Peaceful House – Children’s Rooms
I am going to assume your children’s rooms are completely out of control. They can so easily get that way. There are food encrusted plates under the bed, old peanut butter sandwiches in the drawers, and all manner of toys, crayons, papers, socks etc., which have...
How to Get Children to Clean Their Rooms
First of all, stop telling them to clean their rooms. From now on, think of their room as 5 separate zones instead of one room. The zones are the bed, the floor, the desk, the closet, and the nightstand and chest of drawers. If you like, you can even separate the...
