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Beware of Boomerang Words Do your children's words ever take you by surprise because they sound remarkably like something you've said? These "boomerang words" can be a good thing or not such a good thing. When we hear our children repeat our words, it's a strong... ( added 17 days 16 hours ago.)

Yelling at Kids in Anger Have you ever become frustrated with your children when they are begging you for something? If so, you can probably relate to this mom's story. Begging for Ice Cream One mom told me how exasperated she was while driving her... ( added 44 days 19 hours ago.)

Getting Off To School Making It Calm Instead Of Chaotic Do you ever find yourself rushing around in the morning desperately trying to get your kids off to school? Feeling rushed and hassled first thing in the morning is not a good way to start a day! Unfortunately many parents and children report this... ( added 82 days 16 hours ago.)

What's Wrong With Just Wanting Our Kids To Be Happy? "I really do just want my kids to be happy! What can possibly be wrong with that?" The potential problem is that it appears there is a connection between parents focusing on making their kids happy with those children actually being increasingly... ( added 99 days 11 hours ago.)

How Much Media Is Too Much? When parents discuss how much media they allow their children, the answers vary wildly. Some parents have very strict time restrictions on their children's media viewing while others give their children more control over the time they spend on... ( added 142 days 7 hours ago.)

What New Life Skills Will Your Kids Learn This Summer? We have until our children are about 18 years old to teach them all the basic skills they'll need to live on their own. Although it sounds like a lot of time, it goes by amazingly fast. Summertime can provide a little more free time for teaching... ( added 176 days 17 hours ago.)

What Does Death Teach Our Children? Death is one of those lessons we hope our children will not have to experience early in life. However, given death is an inescapable fact of life, we know our children will eventually need to deal with it. When and how we discuss death with our... ( added 191 days 19 hours ago.)

Avoiding Hearing "You're not listening!" Listening is one of those skills that really doesn't seem like it's all that difficult. Why then do so many children report that their parents don't listen to them? Maybe it's because there are a lot of ways for parents to unintentionally stop... ( added 227 days 15 hours ago.)

"Stop crying!" and Other Commands That Don't Work Moments of frustration can lead parents to issuing commands that really don't work. Any time we are ordering children to change their behavior we're not likely to succeed. Instead of producing the desired behavioral change, commands often lead to... ( added 267 days 20 hours ago.)

Postponing the Most Important Things As parents our days can easily be filled to overflowing with all the tasks that are required to keep our families running: making meals, doing dishes, driving kids to activities, washing clothes and working. These are certainly not the most... ( added 296 days 21 hours ago.)

Making and Breaking Promises "But you promised!" It's easy to misinterpret a statement as a promise when no promise was intended. Being intentional about what is a promise and what is not can be helpful in avoiding misunderstandings. When you make a promise, it is important... ( added 299 days 16 hours ago.)

A New Year's Resolution Worth Keeping If you could resolve to do something in 2009 that has the potential of greatly improving your relationship with your children what would it be? After giving it some thought, I decided I'm going to work on becoming a better listener. Now that... ( added 316 days 17 hours ago.)

Hard Work of Parenting Pays Off Being a parent certainly presents plenty of difficult challenges (who can ever forget trying to stay cool, calm and collected while your child has a meltdown!). However, the time and energy you put into becoming the best possible parent you can... ( added 324 days 12 hours ago.)

Teaching Children to Express Gratitude We are responsible for teaching our children to say "please" and "thank you". This basic social skill is critical in showing respect for others. However, many older children have not fully developed this skill and it causes problems. For... ( added 334 days 15 hours ago.)

Gifts That Are Remembered During a parenting seminar, parents were asked to think back to our own childhoods and remember someone who really loved us. The leader then asked us what we remembered about how that person showed us their love. We reported many fond memories... ( added 361 days 18 hours ago.)

Whose Responsibility Is It? Children are often capable of more responsibility than we give them. When parents take on responsibilities which their children really should be handling, they are likely to feel overwhelmed and underappreciated. One mom complained about all... ( added 1 year 35 days ago.)

Parenting Using Promises Instead of Threats One mom was exasperated with her preschool daughter after she pitched fit for 45 minutes upon learning that her little brother was going swimming while she was at preschool. When mom was completely fed up with the whining and crying, she... ( added 1 year 46 days ago.)

Getting Dressed All by Myself, All in Due Time! Young children take pride in doing things for themselves like getting dressed. However, sometimes their sense of urgency in completing a task doesn't always match their parents' sense of urgency. Parents quickly learn that encouraging their... ( added 1 year 60 days ago.)

Teens Trying to Become Pregnant I was saddened to read that Gloucester High School in Massachusetts had a record number of 17 pregnant teens this year. Apparently this happened after a number of them, all 16 and younger, made a pact to get pregnant. According to the article some... ( added 1 year 139 days ago.)

Avoiding Power Struggles With Your Children It's easy to get into power struggles with your children. However, once you learn what triggers power struggles, you can avoid them. Let's look at how to do this using a couple of examples. In the first situation, five year old Jacob has asked... ( added 1 year 147 days ago.)