Parenting Tips and Helpful Information

"My Child Thinks He's the Boss!" How to Get Back Control of Your Home

Parents are often initially afraid to stand up to a child who’s bossing everyone around. This might be because there’s been a parenting gap all the while, or because they depend on this child to supervise the other kids when they’re gone.

When Your Young Child Has Surgery

Since I know firsthand how nerve-wracking it is to see your child go “under the knife,” I wanted to write a post to help other parents who are worried about putting their kids through surgery.

When Consequences are Not Enough

Ever wonder why your child continues to misbehave, no matter what you do? You may be skipping some critical steps in parenting. Don’t miss part two of our series on why consequences alone aren’t enough to change your child’s behavior.

Setting Up a Chore Schedule: How I’m Getting My Kids to Do Chores

 I decided it was time to set up a regular chore routine for the entire family, husband included.  I came up with a fun idea to liven it up a bit: I wrote weekly and daily chores on ping pong balls and thought it would be fun to pick from the balls every Sunday evening. At first, the younger boys even fought over who had more ping pong balls. Yes, you heard me. This meant they fought over who had the most chores! They begged to be the one to pick the extra ball the next week!

Telling Without Talking: Exploring Your Child’s Feelings through Their Art.

You might already be aware that art can be a powerful source of therapy. Did you know it can also be a diagnostic tool that gives a trained clinician a plethora of information?

Miscellaneous Articles to Help Your Life be More Enjoyable.

•What Do Your Inner Voices Say? Are They Positive or Negative?
Enhance your relationship by feeling better about yourself. Exploring the inner voices or negative/positive messages you attained in childhood.

• Experience Effective Communication for Healthy Anger Management.
Relationship communication guide to assist in expressing feelings, including anger, in an appropriate manner.

 • Eat to Control Your Anger. Get Your Grocery List Here.
The fast pace itself creates physiological problems within our bodies. Our ability to handle anger is lowered not only by the stress, but also by the effects of the stress and constant on the go.

• Whiffling Through the Tulgey Wood-Find Your "Muchness."
Article considering ways that help you "whiffle" through hard times, including angry times, and find your inner power, your personal "muchness."

• The Invisible Relationship Hitch or Enrich.
The Invisible Relationship Hitch or Enrich. Free article to help with anger management.

• Roots and Wings: Maximize Your Similarities and Appreciate Your Differences..
Roots and Wings: Maximize Your Similarities and Appreciate Your Differences

• Free Depression Evaluation and Explanation for Anger Management.
Free depression evaluation and explanation. Depression will decrease your ability to manage anger. Discover if you have slipped into a depression.

• Get Rich with Random Acts of Kindness.
Discussion of the effects of positive and negative thinking. How can random acts of kindness increase our "richness."

• Infidelity Recovery Tips.
Free article on infidelity recovery tips, ways to heal and move on.

• Learn How to Create a Soul Mate Connection with Your Current Partner.
Create emotional intimacy and communication allowing the soul mate connection to develop in your relationship.

 • Be well, Feel good, Allow it-here is how.
Find out how to create and maintain happiness in your life with Abraham Hicks.

 • Anger Management with Health: Tips on Diet, Exercise, and Healthy Habits.
Articles on health and exercise videos to help you stay healthy, Various finds from other websites with good information on staying healthy. Happy relationships are easier when you are healthy.

• Dairy Allergy and/or Intolerance information, Help, and Recipes.
Dairy Allergy and/or Intolerance information.

• Wheat Allergy and Wheat Intolerance Information and Help.
Wheat Allergy and Wheat Intolerance information.

• Enhance Your Relationship Through Your Five Senses.
Enhance Your Relationship Through Your Five Senses. Free article to help with relationship and anger management.

• Gramma does Dating… or Maybe Not.

In this age, there are a higher percentage of the population who call themselves (or someone else calls them) seniors.  In this age group, dating can open a new and frightening endeavor. Dating in the 50’s and 60’s was much different than dating today.

•  Better Relationship through Erectile Dysfunction (ED) Yep, You Read it Right.

Picture this: soft lights, comfy bed, glass of something tasty, freshly showered bodies, loving couple, and soft music. Yep, we are getting some tonight. But the little man is napping.

 • When Sympathy Cards May be Appropriate for Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day is traditionally for couples. The premise is to proclaim your love and polish up the love connection you have with another person. Sometimes we give cards or symbolic tokens to people with whom we are not a couple. However, Valentine's Day is mostly interpreted as a couple's day.

 • Six for Sex: Six Tips for a Better Love Life

That first glow of in love sometimes gets lost in the job of daily living. When children are added, it may seem you then ride the train to nowhere. Your relationship with your spouse gets lost in the muck of breakfast, getting kids up and dressed, off to work and school, back again with homework, soccer, karate, sleepovers, play dates, dinner, laundry, pets, and on and on...