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Disclaimer: These writings should be considered a matter of personal opinion. They do not reflect professional advice. This medium does not lend itself to the level of detail and intimacy required to provide professional advice. If you are in need of consultation, I highly recommend you seek professional counseling. If at all possible, you should seek a reliable referral from a trusted source.
How to Navigate Parenting & Video Games
Well, we’ve reached the third and final installment of our series on video games. If you haven’t yet read parts one and two, you should go back and do that now. In part one we looked at the psychological impacts of video gaming, and in part two we looked at the...
How Video Games are Physically Affecting Your Child
(In case you missed part 1 about videos affecting your child’s sleep, click here)In our first installment on video games, we talked about how your child is being psychologically affected by video games. We touched on both the good and the bad and while there is so...
How Video Games Are Affecting Your Child’s Sleep
Since the dawn of gaming, there has been a war waging between parents and video games. Every year a new hot game hits the market and breaks entertainment records and every year articles are published that blame games for real-life violence, behavioral issues, and...
5 Things Parents need to Know about Tik-Tok
If I asked you to name which apps are on your child’s phone right now, could you answer correctly? Do you even know? In 2017 the total number of mobile app downloads reached 197 billion... with a ‘B’. As a parent it can seem overwhelming and even impossible to stay on...
Turning Everyday Struggles into Playful Connections: Transitions
Play is the natural language of children. Next time you find yourself struggling with your child, turn to play for the answer. For your child, play is familiar, play is non-threatening, and most of all play is fun. Welcome back to part 2 of a 3-part series on how to...
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How To Raise Grateful Kids [Video]
Let’s face it, some days as a parent it’s hard to cultivate feelings of gratitude. A car cuts you off in traffic or another mom gives you a judgemental look for bringing your coughing kid to playgroup. Life seems to just have a lot of things that feel hard to be...
How to Raise Healthy Parents
Being a parent is hard. Being a healthy parent is even harder. Parents give so much of their time, resources and overall energy to the process of raising a healthy child. While routines, structures, and discipline are put in place to help the child, it becomes very...
Child Abuse in Trusted Places
The recent news of an even deeper scandal involving a major religious institution in our world is plain awful. As a parent with young children, it is troubling to consider the statistics surrounding child abuse within what is considered seemingly safe adult...
How to Manage Tantrums
We live for Saturdays in my house. It’s the only morning that a few significant things happen: endless kiddo snuggles, cartoons, and coffee in a mug instead of a travel tumbler. Perhaps the most important, though, is: PANCAKES. My boys eat those things up in .4...
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