5 Great Questions to Ask Your Kids Every Week
As a coach, I always drove home the point that if we communicated well as a team, we’d put ourselves in the best position to…
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5 Ways to Cope With Your Child Growing Up
Parallel parking is hard. During my driver’s test, I hit an orange cone and failed. My first attempt at getting my license didn’t go too…
5 Ways to Overcome Your Greatest Parenting Challenges
Jake was a good kid from a wonderful family. He had two parents who loved him, supported him, and spent time with him. They raised…
4 Boy Stereotypes to Dispel for Your Son
As the soldiers tore him away from her, Leia realized this might be the last chance to tell him how she really felt. She looked…
5 Ways to Be a Good Listener to Your Kids
When a sound wave travels through the ear canal, it vibrates the eardrum, which causes three tiny bones to quiver, which jiggles the inner ear…
5 Girl Stereotypes to Dispel for Your Daughter
As a lifelong Spider-Man fan, I was so excited to see the webslinger on the big screen for the first time in 2002. It had…
Cultivating Connection With a Teen Who’s Too Cool for You
The only thing more difficult than being a teen might be parenting one. I’m being hyperbolic, sort of. As anyone who parents a teen knows,…
10 Strategies to Employ When Your Children Are Fighting
A friend of mine had kids who were constantly fighting. After years of it, he was finally fed up when his kids, who were now…
6 Questions When You Aren’t Sure How to Handle a Situation With Your Kid
If you’re like me, when my kids are having behavior challenges, I often don’t have a clue what to do. When our son was 6, his…
3 Ways You Need to Disappoint Your Teen
Our first time parenting a teenager was a little rough. We had no idea what we were doing. And I was that dad who always…