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What Our Kids Need Most as a New School Year Begins
A new school year brings more than new teachers, classrooms, and routines. It also brings emotions our kids may not know how to put into words. As parents, we spend time preparing backpacks, packing lunches, and organizing schedules. While those things matter, our children are preparing in quieter ways. They may be wondering what their…
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The Power of Repair After a Hard Parenting Day
Have you ever replayed a parenting moment in your mind, wishing you’d handled it differently? Every parent has days when patience runs short and emotions take over. In those moments, it’s easy to wonder if we’ve damaged the relationship that matters most. The good news is that one difficult day doesn’t define your family. What…
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The Confidence That Comes From Trying
The confidence that comes from trying isn’t built overnight. It grows each time our children are given the chance to take on something new for themselves. Summer creates more room for those opportunities. Without the constant rhythm of homework, practices, and packed schedules, our kids have more time to learn through everyday experiences that help…
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Raising Independent Kids Without Losing Connection
This Fourth of July, while fireworks light up the sky, many parents are quietly wrestling with a different kind of independence – thinking about raising independent kids, the everyday moments when our kids and teens push for more freedom than we feel ready to give them. From wanting to walk to a friend’s house alone…
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You Teach Your Kids to Forgive. Have You Forgiven Yourself?
We talk about forgiveness constantly in parenting. Teaching our kids to forgive a sibling. Modeling forgiveness after a friend’s mistake. Showing them that relationships can survive conflict. But there is one form of forgiveness most conscious parents never practice, and it is the one that matters most. Forgiving ourselves. For the moments we lost our…
A 3xTEDx speaker, media contributor, parenting coach, and a mom of two – helping families thrive by using the Guidance Approach to Parenting.