When To Say NO

When To Say NO

  “Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let them do it. It’ll be OK.” ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture As a parent it is often hard to know where to draw the line.  Am I being too strict? Too lenient? How do I… Read more »

How To Teach Your Children

How To Teach Your Children

  “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” ― Benjamin Franklin Good Morning! As a young parent I felt it was my duty to impart all of my knowledge to my children. (Little did I know at the time how much they would teach me.) During those… Read more »

The ADD/ADHD Diagnosis

The ADD/ADHD Diagnosis

  “There are many positives with ADD, including a surplus of ideas, creativity, excitement, and interest which accompany this kind of mind.” – Sari Solden, “Women With Attention Deficit Disorder.” Good Morning, Very often when a parent is first told that their child has ADD/ADHD they can only think of the negative traits of ADD/ADHD.  My… Read more »

Anxieties and Arguments

Anxieties and Arguments

  You don’t have to attend every argument to which you’re invited! Dr. Lara Markham http://www.ahaparenting.com/parenting-tools/positive-discipline/Parenting-Strong-Willed-Child Good Morning! I was reading an article by Dr. Lara Markham and this sentence really resonated with me.  It was a thought that I have often had but never could quite put it into words as well as she… Read more »

Busy Families

Busy Families

  “As you rumble and rush through your day, pause to remember how amazing and new the world is to the young children in your life.” Explorations Early Learning Good Morning! It’s Monday.  It is the beginning of the week and most likely it is going to be a busy week. School, homework and a… Read more »

ADHD – A Different Ability

ADHD – A Different Ability

  “ADHD. It is not a disability, it is a different ability” Unknown Raising a child with ADHD is not always easy, but it sure is never boring!  It takes patience, it takes the ability to always stay calm and it takes the ability to not take everything so seriously.  I am very lucky that… Read more »

Parent Lessons

Parent Lessons

  ‘Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist’ – Michael Levine Good Morning! The day I brought my first child home from the hospital was the scariest day of my life.  I had no idea what to do!  For the first time I fully realized that… Read more »

Parenting and Patience

Parenting and Patience

  “A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.” (Dutch Proverb) Good Morning! For me, the hardest thing to learn when raising my children was patience.  The dictionary defines patience “as the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset”. If we go by that definition, I had very little. Having ADHD definitely was… Read more »

Trying to be Being a Better Mom

Trying to be Being a Better Mom

  Mistakes Are Proof That You Are Trying. Technologyrocksseriously.com Good Morning, I cannot count the number of mistakes that I made raising my children.  I cannot count them because there are way to many of them! Considering the number of parenting mistakes I made, I am thrilled with today’s quote.  Instead of being embarrassed about all of… Read more »