by Smarter Parenting | Sep 28, 2016 | Blogs, Featured Posts>Effective Communication, Posts, Others
5 ways to make difficult conversations with your children easier Recently your son has been hanging out with a new friend every day after school. One day, when he doesn’t come home for dinner, you decide to call the house where he says he’s been hanging out. His...
by Smarter Parenting | Sep 19, 2016 | Blogs, Featured Posts>Effective Communication, Posts, Others
5 tips for making sure your children actually hear you Parents have different ways of communicating with their children. Some are aggressive, some passive and others assertive. The manner in which you choose to communicate with your kids impacts their ability to...
by Smarter Parenting | Sep 14, 2016 | Blogs, Featured Posts>Observe and Describe, Posts, Others
5 parenting phrases to remove from your vocabulary Think before you speak! This goes for parents too. In our busy parenting mode, we use phrases that do not make complete sense to our children. Make sure you know the circumstances before you blurt out something you...
by Smarter Parenting | Sep 11, 2016 | Blogs, Others
September 11 It started out as a normal Tuesday morning. It didn’t stay that way. As a sophomore in college, I was sitting in my class in Utah at eight in the morning, when my teacher mentioned something about a plane hitting a building in New York. It was one...
by Smarter Parenting | Sep 7, 2016 | Blogs, Featured Posts>Correcting Behaviors, Posts, Others, Parenting Skills>Correcting Behaviors
The positive opposite of bad behavior Several months ago I started thinking a lot about how to improve my own behavior while parenting. I identified what I needed to change, but found myself reverting back to the same initial response during escalated moments. I even...