The topic around food and children comes up very often. For example, I know many parents who feel very hopeless and start arranging their lives around food. While I totally understand this, because I was one of them too, I now see that my own attachments and beliefs about food determined my relationship with my [...]
I often hear parents complain or express concern about their children being just “fine”. For example, a mom might say to me, “When she comes home from school and I ask how she is doing, the only response I get is, ‘I’m fine’.” As parents we are all naturally curious about our children. So if [...]
This February I had the privilege of attending the Coaches Training Institute Co-Active Summit as both an audience member and presenter about Parentology. The energy level of the Summit was unforgettable. Being in the presence of 400 coaches and change makers was both energizing and transformative—a reminder of the amazing potential we have as humans [...]
Children, like adults, sometime say one thing, but really mean another. Therefore, as parents, it is critical that we pay attention to their actions and emotions, not just their words. I will use a story to illustrate. A friend of mine told me an incident in which her 6-year-old daughter wouldn’t stop complaining about her breakfast food. [...]
Is this the right school for her? How can I help him find friends? How do I teach them not to lie? How can I encourage her to be confident? From the moment our children are conceived, we make so many decisions for and with them. The number of questions, choices and possible answers can [...]
From the day our first child is born, as parents, we quickly learn that our children have minds of their own. Whether it is the evening your son refuses to eat the Brussels sprouts on his plate (preferring a candy bar instead), the morning your daughter insists on wearing flip-flips in the snow or the [...]