Why do you need a sleep survival guide? If you are like most new mothers, you probably have found getting adequate sleep to be a challenge. Getting up constantly to tend to your baby, is disruptive to quality sleep and you’re not alone if you’re feeling exhausted and irritable. This survival guide will help you…
How to Encourage Your Child to Sleep Alone
Who’s been sleeping in your bed? Do you have trouble getting your child to sleep alone? If your child is waking you up at night wanting to climb under the covers with you, you could be missing out on the rest you need to handle your responsibilities at work and home. More importantly, it’s important…
How to Keep Your Kids Busy at Home…
10 Ideas to Help You Stay Sane Kids. You love them, but they’ll drive you crazy if you let them. After all, it’s not easy to deal with your children each and every day when you’re used to them being at school or preschool for 40 hours each week. Having them at home is a…
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…
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…