My oldest comes into the kitchen and exclaims, “Anna is so messy! I’m so sick of having her stuff all over my side of the room! Her...

I’m going to give you all permission to calm down about "homeschooling" your kids. The reason I think you may need this is because I did....

I wanted start by addressing a question that came up a couple times this week: What do we do about tantrums?! It's really important for...

Although the concept of giving kids a vision and a plan can sound a bit abstract, it can be quite simple to put into action if you take...

“Can you help us come up with better consequences? None of our consequences are working.” I am asked some variation of this question...

The whole family was at BBC lighting, for what seemed like a million years, buying a dozen random things to upgrade our lighting fixtures...

It was a Friday morning, almost 8:25. The older two had left for school an hour earlier, and my twins had been ready to go since 8:00....

Our kids will have problems. It’s an inevitable part of life. And, although it’s not easy to watch our kids go through problems, it’s...

It's not a new analogy, but it's one that helped me a lot when my kids were really young, and it's one of which I still need to be...

If your kids are already contributing to the household, that’s great! If they could do more, consider adding in a few new things for them...

I remember when my kids were little it took so much longer to have them help me empty the dishwasher or sweep the floor than if I’d just...

Parents often ask how to introduce allowance to their kids if they’re not linking it to chores. It’s hard for parents to wrap their mind...

First of all, let me explain the elephant in the room…elephant in the title… is that an expression? My kids do a lot of work around the...

Now that you’re starting to have the empathetic statement you memorized on the tip or your tongue, I’m sure setting limits and delivering...

If you missed the last post on the importance of empathy, you can read it here. We know using empathy when our kids are experiencing...

Last time we discussed how it’s important to let our kids make smaller mistakes and suffer the consequences of them when they’re young so...

My oldest was only a few months old when I first saw a talk by Charles Fay (the son of a founder of Love and Logic). I sneaked out...

A couple nights of less than ideal sleep will always throw me off my game. I had a morning like that today. And, of course, the times...

Two discussions in the last couple days got me thinking. One was a discussion with a group of women describing their current parenting...