As a parent, you love your child more than anything else in the world, but even the most well-behaved children have their moments. They will turn your house upside down. They will be misbehaving. Your kids will have temper tantrums. But they will also have moments when you forget about all that and just live…
How to Stop Your Toddler from Hitting Other Kids
Toddlers look so cute and innocent, but they can have a dark side. Aggressive behavior like hitting and biting is natural at this age and a concern for many parents. Getting your toddler to stop hitting is hard. It is an ever-going struggle between your will and this little imp, that your parents hoped you…
Diffusing Your Toddler’s Meltdowns – How To Do It
As much as you love your toddler, and I hope we all do, parenting your young child can sometimes be frazzling and stressful! Meltdowns will happen. Be prepared. Factor in that you might be a stay-at-home parent on call 24 hours a day and some days might make you feel like a ticking time bomb!…
Useful Tips And Tricks To Handle Sibling Rivalry
Sibling rivalry is natural and this healthy competition among siblings is unavoidable. This is also true, as in my family, between cousins. My oldest, E, is also the oldest in his group of cousins. And the only boy in that age gap. This has caused some issues where his sameish-age cousins occasionally gang up on…
How to raise kids while keeping sane?
Are Your Kids Driving You Crazy? 10 Sanity-Saving Strategies to Help You Cope Raising children can provide some of the most exciting, wondrous times of your life. But whoever said it was fun all the time to have kids, is either delusional or living in a world of nannies. I know I am not one…
Parenting Advice for Disciplining Children with ADHD
Positive parenting when disciplining has helped many families to achieve greater harmony, and this approach may be especially important for parents raising children with ADHD. Because a child with ADHD can have a tougher time regulating and controlling their emotions. My oldest hugs me with the same amount of emotion as he uses when he…
How to be a calm parent to an ADHD kid
The Secret to Keeping Calm with Your Kid Being a calm parent protects your relationship with your kid and helps you to deal with challenging situations. And those situations will come up a lot if your kid has a diagnosis, like ADHD. Still, it is difficult to keep your cool around the clock. If you…
How to Get Your Kids to Listen to you
Even the most well-behaved children have selective hearing at times. I have one of those. One day they don’t seem to even recognize that you’re speaking. The next, they clearly hear you but are failing to follow your directions. It doesn’t even have to be separate days. With mine, it can happen in a matter…
5 Ways to Motivate Your Kids to Get Things Done
Getting kids to do chores can be a chore in itself. But motivation can be equally hard to inspire in kids. It can be the dishes, the laundry, the homework, or a lot of different things that need to be done so that we all have a clean house and a clean slate. In this…
4 Simple Ways to Improve Life for Your ADHD Child
Does your child have ADHD? My oldest does. He is recently diagnosed. We knew he had it because all the signs were there, but it wasn’t official. And with my husband having it and all his brothers as well, it wasn’t that hard to do the math that one or all of our children would…