by Smarter Parenting | Jun 20, 2016 | Blogs, Featured Posts>Preventive Teaching, Posts, Others, Parenting Skills>Preventive Teaching
5 ways to maintain good behavior while traveling When school gets out and summer sets in, a whole new routine has begun. The day-to-day activities and family interactions change dramatically. Then you add vacations to the already chaotic routine and it can affect your...
by Smarter Parenting | Jun 17, 2016 | Blogs, Others
My dad, my hero Not every girl gets to share their birthday with their hero—but I do. That hero is my father. Every year when I ask him what he wants for his birthday, he says he got the best gift 5,10, or 20 or whatever years I’m turning. Can’t argue there. Like...
by Smarter Parenting | Jun 17, 2016 | Blogs, Others
Lessons Learned from Dad I’m a Daddy’s girl, through and through. As a little girl, I would gobble my food at dinner quickly and then migrate to my father’s lap, just to be close to him. Long after I could do it myself, I still asked him to cut up my meat for me...
by Smarter Parenting | Jun 16, 2016 | Blogs, Others
Dad, thanks for reminding me to have fun When my dad turned 50 I was the last child left at home, so my mom and I were the only ones around to celebrate on his actual birthday. We went out to dinner and on the way home my dad said he wanted to go to a playground. I...
by Smarter Parenting | Jun 15, 2016 | Blogs, Others
Dad taught me how to be self-reliant My father is 90 going on 16. He zooms around in a red Mustang and went sky diving for his 82nd birthday. Dad reminisces about his youth like it was yesterday with every minute detail. His classmates recently got together for their...