Does Your Child Have the Academic Blahs?
It’s the last part of the school year! Your child is dreaming of summer vacation! How do you keep your child motivated? It isn’t always easy, but here are some quick tips.
Ten Things Which Parents Can Do to Encourage Social Skills in Their Teens at Home
Is your child shy? Do they feel awkward in social situations? Here are 10 ways you as a parent can help them develop social skills.
Don’t Put Off Helping Your Procrastinating Teen!
Don’t procrastinate addressing your teen’s procrastination problem! This is a problem which can negatively impact your child’s future personal and professional life!
The Six Things that Teens Need Most from Their Parents
Teens and young adults want to have their own identities and show their parents that they can make it on their own. However, their desire to be independent doesn’t mean that they don’t need their parents.
Five Tips on What to Do When Your Child Talks Back
What should you do when your child talks back? You definitely do not want this behavior to continue and become a habit or escalate! Talking back can cause parent-child communication to deteriorate rapidly.
What Are Our Children Learning from Our Political Arguments?
Our children’s eyes and ears are picking up on everything you do and say. What are you teaching your children about tolerance when you put down people who don’t hold the same political views as you.
3 foolproof tips you can use to get your teen to put down their phone and talk to you
I outline a few great questions to get the conversations rolling as well as offering you my simple conversation cheat sheet for you to download.
Why New Year’s Resolutions Don’t Work
Having resolutions are great but few people stick with them if they don’t include the key details which will lead to success.
Sex, Lies, and Videotapes! How to Explain This Presidential Campaign to Your Kids!
We want our kids to be aware of what is going on in the country but what if what is going is very ugly. How can we use this situation as a “teachable moment”?
Are you using the Hurricane As a Teachable Moment for Your Children?
Are You Using the Hurricane As a Teachable Moment for Your Children? by Kathleen A. Matchunis, B.A., M.S., Certified Professional Coach Well, here we go again! A hurricane is coming towards us and there is so much to do. When these events happen, did it ever occur to you to use hurricane preparation as a [...]