happy child

The Opposite of Criticism

Keep your kids happy AND get rid of all that unhealthy Halloween candy.

We warned them. The waiter warned them. The seagulls were everywhere and aggressive. If they left their food unattended for a moment, those

I don't know a better time to practice waiting with your kids then a trip to Disney. It took me until the end of the vacation to figure

On every family vacation there are a couple days of adjusting. Everybody has to get used to being thrown together and in each others’ space.

Sometimes we have to make space our kids busy lives to allow them to experience boredom. If they are too scheduled or too plugged in to thei

When our mother announced there would be no TV at all that summer, we initially thought it was just one of her ideas. But over the next few

Have you ever felt you can’t get it right? Try the 3 S's

So as we talk to our parents in their role as grandparents, it can help to understand that there is a huge difference between the certainty

At recess we learned that challenges were fun, that we could run faster, climb higher, jump harder. We learned that failures were necessary

We can see failure as a big problem. Or we can see it as the positive it is. If you failed it means you tried. If you failed it means you ha