Since I started blogging at Parenting by the Book for Richmond Family Magazine, I have read twenty-four titles from experts on everything from our kids’ disconnect with nature to the…
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Last week, while reviewing holiday wish lists, I let my daughters know that some items were on backorder. My oldest remarked, “What’s Santa been doing all year?” It struck me…
Over the past two years, I’ve blogged about 24 parenting books and this is the first time I ever spied my husband actually reading one of them. He is much…
It’s no secret. When mom’s happy, the family’s happy. Yet “women admit they don’t invest enough time in doing the things that make them happy,” authors Cathy Greenberg and Barrett…
The middle school I used to teach at distributed “Grover Gold” to students whenever they helped out by running an errand for a teacher, for example, or cleaning up without…
“Happiness is a view of the world,” writes Cathy Greenberg and Barrett Avigdor. “It comes when you align your life to your values, learn to love and forgive yourself and…
When I was a child, my mother yelling didn’t affect me as much as when she said, “I’m disappointed.” Therefore, as Amy McCready explained the power of “The Calm…
“You’ve tried everything. Time-outs. Yelling. Reminding. Nagging. Taking away privileges. Counting to three. And none of them worked. Like most parents, you’re fed up,” author Amy McCready sympathizes. Promoted as…
Author Neale S. Godfrey insists children “must be able to see, and be able to identify, the physical substance of money before they can do anything with it.” Therefore, in…
“Teaching children about money is not teaching about greed or teaching them to become soulless, grasping little Ebenezer scrooges,” author Neale S. Godfrey writes. “Money is about values, about…
Enthusiastic? Yes. Optimistic? Definitely. But naïve, they weren’t. Even after Robert and Page Bethke completed the six-week intensive course they jokingly referred to as “the scared straight for adoptive parents,”…
by Lynne Kenney PsyD The Family Coach, author of The Family Coach Method www.lynnekenney.com Extraordinary…boy, isn’t that a nice word? Beyond the ordinary…transcending the mundane….unexpected and astonishing. Is this possible?…
