Being there for your kids

Hormones - We All Have Them!

As a positive reframe, let’s call hormones an “energy surge.”  We can’t avoind them, so, what to do with them?

Getting Your Child Out of Jail

Parenting with The Good Kid Chart

When helping with character development, The Good Kid Chart gets your child excited about making substantive behavioral changes.

Stressed? Just Breathe.

Breathing comes naturally, but we don’t think of taking a deeper breath when you want to manage stress. My “Chillin’ Out” resource on my website, www.THEREFORMYKIDS.com takes you through the steps to manage your stress in the moment, clear your mind, and get back to task renewed and refreshed.

Correction with Grace

When you correct your child with grace, even a mess-up can become a teachable moment that builds the relationship, rather than break it down.

Bedtime Routine

Getting your child to bed can be exhausting. If you establish a workable routine, with boundaries, and stick with it, bedtime can become a calming, teachable moment.

Goldilocks—Just Right Parenting

Your children benefit when you are neither too strict nor too lenient, but rather, just right in your parenting. Promoting teachable moments, along with healthy boundaries, active listening, and engaging problem-solving, will make your parenting just right.

The Codependent’s Commandment

Self-care is equally important to other care. When you balance the two, you and your child are ready for teachable moments.

Grace Filled Parenting

9 points to effective Christian parenting.

Me Time, What’s That?

Do you give yourself “Me Time” during the day? Dr. Jon Robinson offers suggestions on how to do that.