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Rethinking New Year’s Resolutions: A Guide to Purposeful Parenting in 2024
Are New Year’s resolutions a good idea or a bad idea? Let’s just say they are very popular but also very hard to keep. Up to 80% of people that make resolutions fail within the first few weeks. So it begs the question is there even a point in setting them? Especially as busy parents, it could be just yet another item on the never ending “to do” list and makes you feel like your failing if you don’t stick to it. Read on for a different approach to resolutions and how to be more intentional in your life and parenting in 2024.
10 Obstacles hindering your path to confident parenting: How to overcome them
I don’t know any parent that doesn’t want to raise a confident, resilient, compassionate human being. Authoritative parenting approaches result in the best outcomes for our child compared to authoritarian, permissive or uninvolved parenting.
But there are 10 obstacles we need to be aware of in order to shift our default parenting style to authoritative parenting.
I share those obstacles here as well as approaches to overcome them.
6 Tools to find your calm when parenting
If we come into parenting with stress, overwhelm and an inability to regulate ourselves, it makes parenting so much harder. Here I share 6 tools that have supported me to find more calm in my parenting.
Top 5 Struggles of High-Achieving Parents (and what to do about it)
Are you a high-achieving, perfectionist parent? If so, you may be making parenting harder than it needs to be because of the 5 things.
Staying sane with Halloween candy
Are you looking forward to celebrating Halloween with your child but stressed about all the candy? If healthy eating is important to you and your family it makes sense that you would worry about how much candy they eat.
There is so much fear around candy: it will cause cavities, our kids will experience a sugar high and then crash, it’s unhealthy - artificial colors, TBHQ, titanium dioxide. It all sounds so scary but stay with me.
Check out my top 6 tips for staying sane with Halloween candy
7 Common Parenting Challenges
Being a parent is hard, stressful and can be overwhelming with all the different advice out there. We are human and we ALL make mistakes. Be gentle on yourself and when you do mess up, as well all do, focus on repair.
To help you out, I have put together the most common parenting challenges and tips on how to overcome them so you can parent with confidence and joy!
What to do when your child says “I’m bored”| Your Transformed Family
Does hearing the dreaded words, “I’m bored” have you pulling your hair out? Read this article for 5 benefits of boredom and what to do when your child says them, which they inevitably will.
A Father’s Message on Father’s Day
Parenting is hard for all of us. This month, I speak with my husband, Gord, about his fatherhood journey. He shares what surprised him, his struggles and his advice for other father’s.
Is asking this question killing your parenting?| Your Transformed Family
Struggling with your child’s negative behaviour? Whether that be hitting, screaming or defiant behaviour. Asking “How do I get rid of it?” is likely causing you more stress and overwhelm. Ask yourself this question instead.
Are you developing your leadership skills as a parent? 7 Traits to Be an Effective Transformational Parent| Your Transformed Family
Are you developing your leadership skills as a parent? 7 Traits to be an effective transformational parent
Demystifying Parenting Styles | Your Transformed Family
Are you confused about parenting styles: authoritative parenting, helicopter parenting, attachment parenting, gentle parenting, authoritarian parenting, tiger parenting? I help demystify them in this blog.
Understand Why Your Child Misbehaves
Navigating how to manage a child’s challenging behaviour is difficult for many parents, but understanding why a kid behaves the way that they do might be just as or even more of an issue. Do you ever feel like there’s no rhyme nor reason when your little darling decides they would rather act up than listen?
Check out this blog to get a better understanding of what might be going on for your child.
17 Playful Parenting Hacks for When Your Too Tired To Play
I sometimes wish I had the amount of energy my kids do. Can you relate? It's great for them but can be hard as a parent when we are exhausted with all the things.
Here I will share lots of ways to play with your kids, no matter their age, even when you are exhausted.
3 Steps to Setting & Holding Boundaries
Do you sometimes feel that the only way to get cooperation is with rewards or punishment? I know I used to think that and many of the families I work with want to be peaceful parents but aren’t sure how to get cooperation without using rewards and punishments. Check out my 3 tips for setting and holding limits that stick.