Your Parenting On Purpose Toolbox
This is where I share weekly tools and strategies to help support you both as a parent, and in living your best life — so you can be an example of what's possible for your kids.
Feel free to browse or find what you need in the categories in the right-hand column. I hope this inspires you, and by all means: COMMENT. I'm always open to feedback.
Do you often find yourself in a battle of wills with your kids and wish they would cooperate more easily? When this happens I hear parents describing their kids as stubborn, difficult, obstinate, or even defiant. They tell me that their kids know better and that they don’t understand why their kids don’t simply do what they’re supposed to. These parents are usually frustrated, and at...
As parents, we want to teach our kids appropriate behaviors to help them best navigate through life, but what’s the best way to go about correcting our kids for hitting, yelling, or throwing a fit when they don’t get their way? These types of behaviors can trigger us as parents, and we may respond by putting our kids in a timeout, taking away privileges, or yelling and throwing a fit...
Are you raising a “difficult” or an “easy” child? As parents, we tend to put our kids into one bucket or another based on how easy or difficult they are for us to parent. If they listen well, are flexible, and go with the flow, then we label them as “easy”. But if they are more opinionated about what they want and don’t bend easily to how others think...
If I told you there was one thing that you could teach your kids that would help them every single time they were stuck not knowing what to do — one thing that could help them figure things out in every single aspect of their lives, can you imagine what it is?
I’m guessing that many of you are going to answer “I don’t know”, and ironically, that is actually the answer!
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When your child asks you for something, do you quickly figure out in your head if it’s a good idea or not and then say yes or no? I get that there are times when a quick response is needed, but if you have the time or can make the time — kids asking for permission to do something provides a great opportunity to connect with them and help develop their thinking brain.
In a recent article, I wrote about...
Do you get triggered when your child misbehaves? I know that I often did when my children were little. In my mind, they always seemed to pick the worst times to not listen and not do what they were “supposed” to. That’s when I would go into command and demand mode.
Unfortunately, at the time I didn’t know how my children’s brains were developing and what their misbehavior...
