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3 Things Your Tween Wishes You Didn’t Do

  I have full faith in you and your parenting, yet I want to share what some tweens I met with wished were different.    1) Taking their phone away every time they mess up.  They feel it’s your...

Keeping Promises in the Time of Conflict

  Your adolescent is angry, and she directs it at you. Before school started last fall, you two agreed that submitting homework on time and holding specific grades in each class would earn her...

The Truth About Failing

  Failure sounds and feels like defeat and disappointment. Something that we didn't want to happen happened. Yet, its value lies in how we respond to it. I attended a concert where the singer kept...

Upgrade Your Summer to Easy

  Finally, we had a normal school year, and our hopes for a glorious summer soared. For it to go well, I recommend having a collaborative mindset and chatting about summer's expectations with the...

Mother’s Day Love to You

  I know you will enjoy the brunches, dinners, accolades, gifts, and flowers that honor you and your motherhood today. You deserve them for your selfless sacrifice and love. It’s lovely for you to...
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Why Gratitude Doesn’t Suck

I believe in the power of gratitude and I’m indebted to those who have studied and proven its value. Expressing ...

When a Parent is Proven Wrong

As a mom I’ve been wrong. I proved it. A few years back my younger son was studying the space ...

How to Talk About Disappointments

Remember that time your child was competing in or for something? She’d worked hard and felt 100% confident that her ...

Privilege Follows Responsibility

I coach a couple who questioned if perhaps, they were expecting too much from their 7th-grade son. In the summer ...

Blinded-sided by Anxiety in 6th Grade

The school’s phone number popped up on my caller ID on that Tuesday, the third week of school. What I ...

Off They Go!

Gratitude from parents this week: Once school starts I won't miss these texts: Ryan stole my iPad, Emma ate my ...

On Target

School's starting, and the contrast between summer's casualness and school’s structure is palpable. Your child and you are not strangers to ...

Because It’s Not True

 I am coaching some very cool adolescents this summer. Each one is amazing. Here is one’s story about being bullied ...

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