Tag Archives: Parenting

Top 5 Life Skills to Teach Your Kids

Your kids. They’ve got school to teach them their educational requirements. They’ve got friends to teach them how to be social and have fun. They’ve got their extracurricular activities to teach them movement and play. They’ve got dozens of other messages distracting them at any moment of the day. AND, they have you, their parents, […]

How to Give a Crap About Homework

It’s that time again – either you or your kids are back at school, and that means dealing with homework. Or maybe your version of homework is that project at work you’ve been blowing off, or that long list of chores and home repairs that has been gathering dust in the back of your mind. […]

What Stinks About Mommy?

Everybody has a few pesky personality traits, whether they know them or not. Bossy, short-tempered, melancholic, fake-nice, judgmental … these traits don’t just hide in a box under your bed. They follow you everywhere you go, at work and at home, tripping you up along the way until you deal with them and shut them […]

Is There a Parenting Manual?

You’ve heard the joke that babies don’t come with manuals, right? People are usually shocked at what it’s actually like to become a parent. As a coach, I get a huge kick out of it, because it engenders great humility since full grown adults are reduced to exhausted helpless heaps, and begin to consider forgiving their […]

Top 5 Life Skills to Teach Your Kids

Your kids. They’ve got school to teach them their educational requirements. They’ve got friends to teach them how to be social and have fun. They’ve got their extracurricular activities to teach them movement and play. And they have dozens of other messages distracting them at any moment of the day. And they have you, their […]

Compete, Pout, Martyr and Shout

The other day, I was in a knee-jerk, control mode, trying to get my way with my kids. All the phenomena I experienced were familiar: in the middle of my rant, I felt noble, all my logic made perfect sense to me. The voices in my head sounded intelligent: they are studying wrong, they are […]

When I Was Your Age

 – When I was your age, we didn’t have cell phones or laptops.– When I was your age, we had to work for our spending money.– When I was your age, kids respected their parents.– When I was your age, I walked barefoot to and from school, uphill both ways.“When I was your age…” is […]