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Five Ways To Make Parenting More Difficult Than It Already Is- Part 5

Don’t Have a Plan.

Five Ways To Make Parenting More Difficult Than It Already Is- Part 4

Don’t Teach Them To Love and Respect God.

Five Ways To Make Parenting More Difficult Than It Already Is- Part 3

Let the Culture Around You Dictate Your Parenting Plan.

Five Ways To Make Parenting More Difficult Than It Already Is- Part 2

Get Your Own Issues in the Way of Your Parenting.

Five Ways To Make Parenting More Difficult Than It Already Is- Part 1

Don’t Prepare Them to Become Adults.

Finding the Balance of Family and Individuality- Part 5

Looking Outside Our Walls.

Finding the Balance of Family and Individuality- Part 4

Being Others-Focused

Finding the Balance of Family and Individuality- Part 3

What We Can Do.

Finding the Balance of Family and Individuality- Part 2

Why is This Important?

Finding the Balance of Family and Individuality- Part 1

Getting Past the Selfie

Becoming Your Spouse’s Best Friend- Part 5

The attributes of a best friend- Part 2

Becoming Your Spouse’s Best Friend- Part 4

The attributes of a best friend- Part 1

Becoming Your Spouse’s Best Friend- Part 3

Risking who I am.

Becoming Your Spouse’s Best Friend- Part 2

Understanding your spouse’s perspective.

Becoming Your Spouse’s Best Friend- Part 1

Choosing to be your spouse’s best friend.

Mothering Is Harder Than I Thought- Part 5

More ways to get help as a mom and individual.

Mothering Is Harder Than I Thought- Part 4

How’s a mom to get help?

Mothering Is Harder Than I Thought- Part 3

Finding yourself as a woman and a person.

Mothering Is Harder Than I Thought- Part 2

Find the balance in life.

Mothering Is Harder Than I Thought- Part 1

It is more challenging than I imagined.

The 30 Imperatives of Parenting- #29 and #30

#29= Eat Dinner Together and #30= Take Vacations Together

The 30 Imperatives of Parenting- #28

#28= Applaud Effort and Good Choices.

The 30 Imperatives of Parenting- #27

#27= Let Them Observe You- Admit When You Are Wrong

The 30 Imperatives of Parenting- #26

#26= Let Them Observe Your Marriage

The 30 Imperatives of Parenting- #25

#25= Let Them Observe Your Faith

The 30 Imperatives of Parenting- #24

Get Out There With Them- #24=In There Cyber Space

The 30 Imperatives of Parenting- #22 and #23

Get Out There With Them- #22= Be Where They Are #23= Show Up At Parties

The 30 Imperatives of Parenting- #20 and #21

#20= Read #21= Read Them the Word

The 30 Imperatives of Parenting- #19

#19= Serving Others

The 30 Imperatives of Parenting- #18

#18= Listen

The 30 Imperatives of Parenting- #17

#17= Date Your Child

The 30 Imperatives of Parenting- #16

#16= Have Fun

The 30 Imperatives of Parenting- #15

#15= Give Them the Keys That Open Doors

The 30 Imperatives of Parenting- #14

#14= Teaching How To Give

The 30 Imperatives of Parenting- #13

#13= Teaching Money Management

The 30 Imperatives of Parenting- #12

#12= Teaching Time Management

The 30 Imperatives of Parenting- #11

#11= The Importance of Unplugging

The 30 Imperatives of Parenting- #10

#10= You Can’t Do Everything.

The 30 Imperatives of Parenting- #9

#9= Raising Responsible Children

The 30 Imperatives of Parenting- #8

#8=Potential Cracks in the Walls- Get Out of the Way So They Can Learn.

The 30 Imperatives of Parenting- #7

#7=Potential Cracks in the Walls- Don’t Become the Consequence

The 30 Imperatives of Parenting- #6

#6=Potential Cracks in the Walls- Don’t Get Derailed by Childish Outbursts

The 30 Imperatives of Parenting- #5

#5=Potential Cracks in the Walls- Understand that Every Child is Different

The 30 Imperatives of Parenting- #4

#4= Potential Cracks in the Walls- Impulse Control

The 30 Imperatives of Parenting- #3

#3= The Walls- The Power of “No”

The 30 Imperatives of Parenting- #2

#2= The Foundation of Life

The 30 Imperatives of Parenting- #1

#1= The Motivational Way

The 30 Imperatives of Parenting- Overview

A quick look at the 30 things.

Training Toddlers- Part 5

When someone else is training your toddler.

Training Toddlers- Part 4

Toddler triggers.

Training Toddlers- Part 3

The healthy process of training.

Training Toddlers- Part 2

The important months for establishing consistent boundaries and encouragement.

Training Toddlers- Part 1

Toddlers are suppose to push boundaries.

When My Child Is Difficult To Like- Part 5

It’s about Love not Like.

When My Child Is Difficult To Like- Part 4

When Parenting gets in the way of my schedule

When My Child Is Difficult To Like- Part 3

The Middle School Years

When My Child Is Difficult To Like- Part 2

Why Does This Happen?

When My Child Is Difficult To Like- Part 1

What if I don’t Like My Child?

How To Motivate My Child- Part 5

Poor Motivators

How To Motivate My Child- Part 4

Steps to Motivate your child…

How To Motivate My Child- Part 3

Motivation is all about “we” not “you”

How To Motivate My Child- Part 2

Motivate Effort more than Outcome

How To Motivate My Child- Part 1

What is Your motivation for motivating?

Emancipation/ Independence Part 5

The Process of Raising an Adult- Part 3 The Teenage Years

Emancipation/ Independence Part 4

The Process of Raising an Adult- Part 2 The Elementary Years

Emancipation/ Independence Part 3

The Process of Raising an Adult- Part 1 Keep the Goal in Mind

Emancipation/ Independence Part 2

Raising a Non-Conforming Adult

Emancipation/ Independence Part 1

Independence vs. Dependence

Parents helping daughter ride bike

Four Steps of The Training Process- Part 5

#3-Encouragement

Parents helping daughter ride bike

Four Steps of The Training Process- Part 4

#3-Experience

Parents helping daughter ride bike

Four Steps of The Training Process- Part 3

#2-Exposed

Parents helping daughter ride bike

Four Steps of The Training Process- Part 2

#1-Example

Parents helping daughter ride bike

Four Steps of The Training Process- Part 1

A summary of the process.

Noticing Your Child’s Pain- Part 5

When we are all dealing with pain.

Noticing Your Child’s Pain- Part 4

Steps to help.

Noticing Your Child’s Pain- Part 3

Getting past the awkwardness of opening my child’s heart

Noticing Your Child’s Pain- Part 2

Am I available?

Noticing Your Child’s Pain- Part 1

Observing your child’s moods

family playing soccer together

The Value of Fun- Part 5

Enjoying your time

family playing soccer together

The Value of Fun- Part 4

Fun doesn’t need to cost money, but it does cost time

family playing soccer together

The Value of Fun- Part 3

Family Fun Night

family playing soccer together

The Value of Fun- Part 2

Laughter is Therapeutic

family playing soccer together

The Value of Fun- Part 1

The Purpose of Fun

Training Your Child To Respect Authority- Part 5

How to Appropriately Question Authority

Training Your Child To Respect Authority- Part 4

Having Fun With Boundaries

Training Your Child To Respect Authority- Part 3

Start At Home

Training Your Child To Respect Authority- Part 2

Why Is It So Difficult To Teach This?

Training Your Child To Respect Authority= Part 1

Why Is It Important To Teach This?

kids playing on phone

Dealing With The Cyber Tsunami- Part 5

Things Parents Can Do

kids playing on phone

Dealing With The Cyber Tsunami- Part4

The Myth of Multitasking

kids playing on phone

Dealing With the Cyber Tsunami- Part3

Setting the Example

kids playing on phone

Dealing With The Cyber Tsunami- Part 2

It’s A Parent’s Responsibility.

kids playing on phone

Dealing With The Cyber Tsumani-Part 1

The Research Is In

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