Parenting is a complex process, and more often than not, you might find yourself wondering if you’re doing things the right way. You know how the life skills and lessons that your little one learns now will carry on into adulthood, and that doesn’t just include values like honesty and kindness but also important aspects of personality including self-esteem and confidence. … View Post

20 Self Care Ideas for Teens

20 Self Care Ideas for Teens

Is your teen able to cope with the burden of school deadlines, packed schedules and activity-laden evenings? Even as adults we are exhausted and sometimes unaware of the toll stress in our lives. By maintaining a regular self-care routine we will have to be ready. So we need to teach our teenagers, as parents, how to incorporate self-care practices into their lives… View Post

How to Help your Child Who is Too …

How to Help your Child Who is Too Hard on themselves

Raising a child can be challenging, but if you look at it from the child’s perspective, it seems even more confusing and daunting, especially for kids in their tween and teenage years. These kids are often overwhelmed with the world and the society and are trying to make sense of everything around them and where they stand in all of it, and some kids, in particular, take it harder than others. … View Post

How to Help a Teenager who Struggles with …

How to Help a Teenager who Struggles with Addiction

Raising teenagers is rarely easy. They’re bound to make mistakes along their journey towards adulthood, and sometimes those poor decisions involve developing an addiction to drugs and alcohol. No matter how good they are at hiding these things, it’s only a matter of time until mom or dad finds out.… View Post

7 Tips for encouraging your child to discover outdoor …

7 Tips for encouraging your child to discover outdoor play

You’ve heard it often! Your children need less screen time, and they need to spend more time outdoors. You know that. But that’s easier said than done right? Our lifestyle habits and digital dependency has made it difficult to get ourselves and our kids to step outside.

If that’s what you’re struggling with, here’s some help. Keep reading to discover 7 simple and actionable ways to encourage your kid for some outdoor play (and possibly you too). … View Post

Teenagers and Boundaries

Teenagers and Boundaries

Boundaries and consistency are what every teenager needs in order to feel loved and secure. Take away those boundaries and teens will do whatever they want, but in doing so they will be very insecure and unhappy. … View Post

Helping Teens with Their Finances

Helping Teens with Their Finances

When your teen first begins earning money from a part-time job, it’s an exciting time for the whole family. It’s their first taste of freedom and your first opportunity to show them how to responsibly handle their income. Even if it’s just grass cutting job on the side, there’s a great sense of pride that you and your teen will share in together. … View Post

The Pros and Cons of Having your Teen …

The Pros and Cons of Having your Teen Get a Part-Time Job

Encouraging your teen to get a part-time job may sound like a beneficial way to help them work towards their next stage in life while still under your roof to learn some financial restraints, good work ethic and other things that come up when you start to work at a job. … View Post