Building a Bridge Toward Young Adulthood: STOP Trying to Fix Things
Do you ever have times when you’re just trying to help but one of your kids blows up in your …
Category Archives: improving communication
The Right Amount of Busy
Like me, I’ll bet one of the first things you noticed about The COVID Shutdown of Spring 2020 was that …
A Case for FAMILY Dinners
You may not have thought about this before, but teens experience what public health folks call, “optional morbidity,” meaning that …
Some Things Have Changed But BALANCE Remains the Key
Maybe you remember teaching your kid to ride a bike. Many of us began with training wheels. The little guy …
Mrs. Mohrs . . .with gratitude
We all had one like her: she wore a little too much perfume, strong perfume; her cheeks were a little …
Conflict is Inevitable; Combat, Maybe NOT
In my line of work, I see a lot of family conflict and almost without exception, parents AND teens seem …
Would You Like to Do a Better Job of Connecting With Your Teen?
Of all the questions parents ask, THE NUMBER ONE they want to know is: HOW CAN I DO BETTER AT …
Understanding Double-Speak: verbal + non-verbal
A super-interesting finding in linguistic research is that in human communication, about 85% of the message is non-verbal. It is …
The BEST Family Idea in a LONG Time Just in Time for Thanksgiving!
In research done on kids and resilience, that is, the ability to overcome difficulty, researchers discovered an odd connection: Kids …
Some Things Have Changed But BALANCE Remains the Key
Maybe you remember teaching your kid to ride a bike. Many of us began with training wheels. The little guy …
