REAL Questions from REAL Parents – Meeting Someone: more than a handshake
Recently, a parent sent a question about how to help their teen feel less socially awkward when meeting new people. …
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REAL Questions from REAL Parents: How in the world am I going to help my kid have a fun, productive summer WITHOUT boredom!!?
A couple of years ago a mom came to talk with me about how to “reclaim” her kids’ summer. It …
REAL Questions from REAL Parents: A Zillion Social Lessons…if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again?
In last week’s blog I offered a list of some REAL questions I’ve received from REAL parents. You may have …
A Different Kind of Checklist
Lately I’ve spent a lot of thought and writing on chores…the how, the why, the when, the importance. An underlying …
Teaching a Chicken to Play Baseball
We’ve been considering the benefits of having kids do chores. But what about the process? Let’s frame chores with the …
How’re they going to learn?
When I was a teenager, my older brother had a friend named Mike who hung around our house a lot…like …
A Perspective on Chores and Entitlement
I’m so pleased to count Kay Wyma as my friend, though to be honest, everyone who meets her would make …
How to We Help Kids LEARN Balance on Their Own?
In the last blog, we considered how parenting is like teaching a kid to ride a bike: lots of assistance …
Person-praise or Process-praise? Fixed? Or Growth?
(photo from Unsplash, Tyler Nix) It seemed so SIMPLE. Your kid did well; high five! But have you noticed that …
How do we help kids experience “post-traumatic growth?” Asset 1 (repost)
Recently we shared Dr. Marti Seligman’s research on post-traumatic stress, a project which called attention to the fact that many soldiers …
