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Setting Limits

Setting Limits

   “It is not that you are a bad parent. You are experiencing a bad moment.” What are setting limits, and do I need them? This is a roadmap for you to feel confident with your boundaries so that you can experience more peace and joy with your children! This is a hot...
Things You Should Know about Raising Tween Boys

Things You Should Know about Raising Tween Boys

There are some nuances to raising a tween boy that are different from raising girls. If you know about them, it is easier to navigate these challenges. If you don’t know them, you are more likely to take some of the behavior personally or feel worried about them. Join...
Tips to Handle Your Child’s “No” Gracefully

Tips to Handle Your Child’s “No” Gracefully

from Tomorrow’s Child Magazine – May, 2021 | by The Montessori Foundation What You Need to Know There are few words less nerve-wracking than hearing your child say “no” to you. Rest assured, your child is very normal. If she asserts herself with a “no,” you can pat yourself on the back. You have not […]

Adjusting to Life in 2020-2021: Cultivating a Growth Mindset

Parenting on the Same Page

You and your co-partner are the glue of your family. If that relationship gets watered down through lack of communication, it creates tension in the family. You know the feeling, right…the tension when there is bickering or silent treatment? Where there is tension in the family, it becomes fertile ground for “misbehavior” from the children. […]

Adjusting to Life in 2020-2021: Cultivating a Growth Mindset

How Do You Handle Anger?

Anger is a natural reaction to being wronged. But society tells us anger is dangerous and we should hide it or “positive think” it away. Yet, if anger is harnessed correctly, it can create positive change. Kath will share ideas for good. Parents can use her ideas when they are feeling the need to control […]

Adjusting to Life in 2020-2021: Cultivating a Growth Mindset

Setting Limits and Making Them Stick!

Do you set limits and then give in? Are you not sure how to set limits? In this session you will learn: • An easy 6 step process to set limits. • How to not crumble after you set the limit. • How to follow through in a way that your child feels understood and […]

Adjusting to Life in 2020-2021: Cultivating a Growth Mindset

Do’s and Don’ts to Get Your Adolescent Talking

“I haven’t talked to my mom, I mean really talked, in six months,” a twelve year-old confided in me. “Oh, why is that,” I asked gingerly. “My mom laughed at me when I told her I had a boyfriend.” Sometimes we forget how sensitive children at this stage of development can be. Yet now, more […]

Montessori Dads: Dad’s Important Role as Daughters Grow

Montessori Dads: Dad’s Important Role as Daughters Grow

Our daughter, Brianna, was laying on the couch with her earbuds on doing the typical teenage ‘thing.’ Brian, my husband, started pestering her about something she hadn’t done. Brianna rolled her eyes and continued to listen to her music. Brian’s tone of voice escalated, and I knew this was not going anywhere good. So, I […]

Adjusting to Life in 2020-2021: Cultivating a Growth Mindset

Worried about Your Teens When They’re Out and About?

When my kids were teenagers, I could make it through the day. But at night, when my head hit the pillow, in the dark is when it would begin. I would toss and turn, worried about my kid…. Who was she with? What was she doing? Would she finish school? Would she be able to […]

Adjusting to Life in 2020-2021: Cultivating a Growth Mindset

Dads Important Role as Daughters Grow

Sometimes Dad’s feel like a “duck out of water” when it comes to relating to their tween/teen daughter. The little girl’s body that used to rough and tumble now has begun to develop making roughing and tumbling awkward. Also, this stage in a girl’s life is fraught with emotional upheavals which often make Dads shy […]

Adjusting to Life in 2020-2021: Cultivating a Growth Mindset

Modern Day Stresses

Do you worry when your child goes to a sleepover so you call her several times that evening? Do you stress about whether you’ve made the right choice of schools? Are you fearful about whether your child will be safe if you are not right there with him? Are you anxious that you’re not doing […]