Priceless Parenting Articles

• Beware of Boomerang Words
        When children repeat our words back to us - good or not so good?
  
  
• Excellent math, science, history tutoring - free!
        Do your children struggle in math, science or history? Get excellent tutoring for free at the Khan Academy.
  
  
• Four Things That Matter Most in Parenting
        What matters the most in parenting as well as in life?
  
  
• Getting Dressed All by Myself, All in Due Time!
        Encouraging children to get dressed on time in the morning
  
  
• Giving the Gift of Love
        What will our children remember when they look back at their childhood?
  
  
• Helping Our Children Shine
        By appreciating our children's unique talents, we can help them follow their own dreams and passions.
  
  
• Improving Your Children's Motivation
        How can we motivate our children to work harder in school, in a sport or in practicing an instrument?
  
  
• What's Wrong With Just Wanting Our Kids To Be Happy?
        Exploring alternative goals that may have a better chance of producing authentic happiness.
  
  
• What Will Your Children's Legacy Be?
        How can you help guide your children to finding their great work?
  
  

• Avoiding Hearing "You're not listening!"
        Listening carefully to our children is essential for building strong relationships.
  
  
• Bossing Your Kids Versus Leading Them
        How can you become an admired leader rather than a pushy boss with your kids?
  
  
• Creating Your Frazzle-Free Family
        What needs to change to make your family operate more smoothly?
  
  
• Family Gatherings: Fun for Everyone?
        What can parents do to help family gatherings be fun for everyone?
  
  
• Feeling Overwhelmed and Under Appreciated?
        There's a parenting trap called "Doing Too Much For Your Kids". Have you fallen in?
  
  
• Getting Off To School – Making It Calm Instead Of Chaotic
        Ideas for making your children's morning school routine calmer and less hectic.
  
  
• Great Parenting Stands the Test of Time
        Parenting ideas that last are those that work well in the long run.
  
  
• Hard Work of Parenting Pays Off
        When your children become teenagers, you start to reap the benefits of all your hard parenting work.
  
  
• Making and Breaking Promises
        Being intentional about what is a promise and what is not can be helpful in avoiding misunderstandings.
  
  
• Postponing The Most Important Things
        When every day tasks fill our lives to overflowing, it's easy to put off doing the important things with our children.
  
  
• How to Decrease Tension by Changing the Tone You Use With Your Kids
        Switching to more positive ways of wording things can make your home feel much more welcoming.
  
  
• What Will Your Children Remember?
        When your children look back at the holidays what will they remember most?
  
  

• 3 Keys to Developing Children's Empathy
        How can you teach your children to have empathy towards others?
  
  
• Changing Your Children's Thinking from Negative to Positive
        How can you help your kids replace negative self-talk with more positive thoughts?
  
  
• Figuring Out How to Fit In
        How can you help your children fit in with their peers?
  
  
• Teaching Children to Express Gratitude
        Being gracious is a basic social skill parents need to teach their children
  
  
• What New Life Skills Will Your Kids Learn This Summer?
        Summer is the perfect time for teaching our kids new skills needed to run a household.
  
  
• What Does Death Teach Our Children?
        Death is a challenging but important topic for parents to discuss with their children.
  
  
• When is Struggling the Best Way Out?
        How can you allow your children to learn through their difficulties?
  
  
• Whose Responsibility Is It?
        Taking on responsibilities our children should have is an easy trap to fall into
  
  

• Avoiding Power Struggles With Your Children
        Finding ways to be set firm limits without arguing
  
  
• Back to School, Back to Bullying?
        Responding to bullying whether your child is the bully, victim or bystander
  
  
• Children Dangerously Breaking Rules
        How well would your children follow the rules in a real situation?
  
  
• Critical Comments Flow Freely from Parents
        Most parents pay more attention to misbehavior than good behavior.
  
  
• How You Unintentionally Encourage Misbehavior
        Considering new ways to respond to your children's behavior
  
  
• Kids Swearing
        Considering different situations and how parents respond to kids swearing
  
  
• Responding to Embarrassing Children's Behavior
        How do you respond when your children's behavior is embarrassing you?
  
  
• "Stop crying!" and Other Commands That Don't Work
        Moments of frustration can lead parents to issuing commands that really don't work.
  
  
• What Makes Time-Out Work and Fail?
        Understanding essential elements for time-outs to work
  
  
• Yelling at Kids in Anger
        Finding alternatives to yelling at our kids when we're angry.
  
  

• Children Searching for Sex and Porn - Yikes!
        Recent data shows children are searching the internet for sex and porn.
  
  
• "Harmless" Spending that Creates Entitled Kids
        How does your spending behavior coupled with marketing messages create entitled kids?
  
  
• How Much Media Is Too Much?
        Guidelines for setting limits around the digital media our children consume.
  
  
• Limiting Screen Time for Kids This Summer
        How parents can set limits on their children's use of TV, computer and video games
  
  
• Your Kids + Technology = Dangerous Territory
        How can you guide your kids to staying safe online?