Why horse riding lessons? Specifically, what are benefits for your kids to learn to ride a horse — putting...
How to Make a Labyrinth Using Foam Boards
Our family ventured a visit to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley last month. By the...
Top 10 Most Important Books for Parents
Give a man a parenting book and he’ll use it as a footstool. Teach a man to parent,...
The Soul of a Schoolboy
Read this to the girls for their poetry lesson one day: The Schoolboy by William Blake I love...
Routine versus Schedule
What is the difference between routine versus schedule? And why does it matter? Routine is defined as a...
Catch Them Doing Good: How to Praise a Child
Find ways to focus more on the good things that your children do, instead of the bad ones....
Help Them Keep Time
How do we convey to our little tykes that uniquely grown-up and abstract concept that is the passage...
Make Them Ask: How to Deal with Temper Tantrum
Categorically ignore grunting, weeping, wailing, pining, whining, moping, yelling, screaming, kicking, tantrum-throwing, and kung-fu fighting. If the request...
Help Them Ask: Teach Your Children to Ask for Things
Child: aaah, aaaah… wannna raaaai…sin…!! raaaiiisin! You: Joey wanna a raisin? Child: yah, yaaah!! raaaisin! You: OK, here’s...
Don’t Swat at Flies
Don’t make empty promises. Worse still, don’t make empty threats. Don’t say things that you can’t possibly carry...