Parenting: The Challenge

When your child reaches the teenage years you may have noticed that your relationship has gone through some changes. You may not be as close with them as you once were or really know what’s going on in their lives. How do you stay involved with their life when it seems they don’t want you [...]

Summer time is a great way to teach your child about how things grow and maybe even give them an appreciation of how they get their fruits and vegetables. Gardening is a great way to spend time with your child and get them involved with keeping a garden. They may even be more interested in [...]

Not everyone has the same parenting style and there will be times when your child may spend time with someone that parents differently than you do. If their style is radically different from how you parent how do you handle that? The best thing to do is to speak up about the things that are [...]

Summer is on it’s way which means school is out, what do you do with the kids? If you’re on a tight budget it can be even more difficult to plan fun and educational things for your kids to do. If summer camp is not on the horizon there are other opportunities. The library is [...]

This is the suggestion from the “radical free-range” mother Lenore Skenazy. She believes that is your child is at least 7 years old they can be left at the park for an hour or 10 minutes, whatever you can handle, so that they can meet and play with other children. This is one of the [...]