Is it always bad to feel bad?
This is the last in a series about how negative situations can in fact be good for our children. Read the first one here, second one here and the third one here.
A 5th grade boy sat across from me with his head down and tears streaming down his [...]
Is it always bad to feel bad?
This is the third in a series about how negative situations can in fact be good for our children. Read the first one here, and the second one here.
“Life has its ups and downs.”
Difficult times will come, even to a child. Whether it’s moving to another city, starting at [...]
Is it always bad to feel bad?
This is the second in a series about how negative situations can in fact be good for our children. Read the first one here.
“Come on guys, let’s go to a party.” Sure!
“Come on guys, let’s go to a funeral.” Silence.
Nobody really enjoys funerals. It’s solemn, it’s sad, and everyone [...]
“And in a recent report, ACNielsen listed “Desperate Housewives†as the most-watched television show for 9- to 12-year-olds.”
Something is wrong here!
“Innocence Lost”…This is the kind of thing that just breaks my heart. Where are the parents? Where are those who are suppose to be the protector and nurturer of our next generation? Who is keeping [...]
Is it always bad to feel bad?
Today’s post is the first in a series about how negative situations can in fact be good for our children.
Whether your kids are in soccer, basketball, football, or any other competitive sport, it’s hard to stand by and watch your children lose, isn’t it?
My cousin’s son plays competitive tennis. [...]
“So you hate feeling so stressed in your own home and you’ve realized that micro-managing your family’s lives isn’t actually improving anything.”
Pete Aldin has identified one of the greatest predicament of a parent – stress.
My interview with Pete offers some insightful helps for us to handle stress in daily life. Click on the link below [...]
I admit, we live a sheltered life here in the suburbs.
I’m not complaining. We like the relative peace and tranquility of suburbia. On the other hand, we cannot live with our heads in the sand.
In my zeal after reading about the devastating earthquake in China, I went berserk last night and lectured my 12-year-old about [...]
If we were to count up volunteer hours in a community, I bet it would add to to an impressive amount.
Last Friday, I spent almost 4 hours at my daughter’s middle school selling food at their field day activities. There were more than a dozen of us parents helping out, some were there all day.
From [...]
Do you know that parents suffer from an occupational hazard?
It’s called low self esteem.
We beat up on ourselves whenever our children do anything wrong. If they go wild in the store, or do poorly in school, or won’t eat their vegetables, we feel that we’ve somehow failed as a parent. There always seems to be [...]
“Mom, don’t throw it away! You can reuse that.”
I rolled my eyes as I fished the empty jelly jar out of the trash. (To tell the truth, I just didn’t want to have more to wash!)
My kids are growing up in a culture much more environmentally sensitive than the way I grew up. To me, [...]
As a parent, we are concern with who our children’s friends are, aren’t we? We know that their peers have a strong influence on the way our children will turn out.
What is the best way for a parent to see who your children hang out with and what they are like when they are with [...]
A caller on the radio talk show had this question:
She was very excited to have landed the lead role in a community theater. The problem is, there is one kiss with the leading man required. Her husband objected to her taking the role. What should she do?
When I heard the dilemma, my first thought [...]
A mom asked me, “How do I talk to my daughter in college about sex?”
This mom wanted to warn her daughter not to have promiscuous sex.
As with many subjects that we want our kids to learn, a straight lecture is usually not the best method. Don’t we simply tune out people that we don’t want [...]
This may surprise you, but I read that most teenagers actually rate their parents high on the list of people they trust to give them accurate information about sex.
Yet, we as parents are often embarrassed to talk about sex with our children, aren’t we?
Honestly, my mother never talked to me specifically about sex. It was [...]
