If you’re like most working adults, chances are you’re shortchanging yourself on vacation days. In today’s growing gig economy, many professionals have no vacation benefits. And most of us use vacations as a way to recharge, both for work and family life. Even if you have a traditional staff position, you may feel like your…
Transform Your Life (and Your Year) with 4 Easy Changes
Sometimes, making changes that you want to see in your life feels nearly impossible. It takes a willingness to step outside your comfort zone to make significant changes that will transform your world. If you want to start your year out right, these subtle changes can be the beginning of a happier, healthier life. Listen…
Your Best Year Ever- Is 2022 Going To Be It?
Tips for Living Your Best Year Although most of the world sees a new year as a time to make massive changes in their lives, it’s the daily choices that lead to lasting change. Taking small steps is more effective than taking big leaps. And making this year your best ever is going to require…
Tired of New Year Resolutions?
I know I am. I don’t know the number of New Year resolutions I have made over the years. And how many of those have I kept longer than the first month? Zilch, nada, none. Because I didn’t have the mindset to make them last. Because too often we charge in when it would be…
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…