Parenting: The Challenge

Recently an article in the New York Daily News was reporting on parents who let their young children drink coffee and coke and play video games at dinner among other things. What is interesting is that many parents allow this kind of behavior rather than tolerate the upset that a child may have when enforcing […]

On the radio, traveling to a friends house, there was one of those parenting tips. I thought it was interesting and a simple thing you can do with your young children. Just talking to them while driving, walking or playing about the names of things can increase their vocabulary. It can help them when learning […]

You can help your children with table manners by starting early taking them to restaurants where they must sit at the table and have patience while waiting for their food to arrive. Children who spend all their restaurant excursions at fast-food places grow up thinking that it is okay to speak loudly, run around the […]

A divorce does not mean the end of the world although it can feel like it during the process. As a parent your concerns are more complex and the changes divorce brings can make it more difficult to take care of both yourself and your children as you and your partner separate and begin new […]

One of the pitfalls of parents divorce is that they continue to communicate the same dysfunctional way they did when they were married. This often has a detrimental effect on the children because they become pawns in the problematic relationship between their parents. If parents work together on their post-divorce relationship the issues that arise […]