Your Parenting Matters

Most of the children in the U.S. will be starting school in the next few weeks. Getting ready to go back to school was always a fun time for me. I remember the trip to the store to pick out all the new things I would need for the new school year. It was the [...]

Actions Speak Louder Than Words
Many parents, often those ‘30 something’  parents, feel they must explain and lecture their children about why they should not misbehave. Rather than take a specific action or allow a consequence to occur parents will let the misbehavior continue and think a verbal reprimand is dealing with the behavior they want [...]

In my counseling practice, I often heard from parents about their attempts to treat each of their children ‘fairly’. Their efforts and preoccupation with making sure each child got the same amount of everything from shoes to what activities they participated in caused a great deal of problems and stress. And, as one might predict, [...]