A blog for parents by a parent
>For a while my wife and I were carrying the heavy load of keeping the house clean and in order (I must admit that my wife had the heaviest part of the load). We are not clean freaks, and we understand that a house full of kids is inevitable going to be a messy house, [...]
Every parent with kids approaching those dreaded teen years lives in constant fear of knowing that at any moment, we will stop being the most important thing in our kid’s life. At least from the child’s point of view.
Friends, music, and TV soon replace family vacations, visits to grandma’s house and family dinners. Little by [...]
I cannot tell you how many divorce parents I’ve worked with, that spend an extraordinary amount of energy, time and resources fighting insignificant and meaningless battles with their ex spouses in the name of the “well being” of their children. I am talking big fights, completely blown out of proportions over the smallest things. Like [...]
Many parents closely watch what their kids do online. And they should! But most monitoring activities rarely go beyond checking regularly on the kids while they are using the computer, or checking the “History” feature on their internet browser.
Most parents consider downloading music or movies, as a safe online activity, but nothing is farther from [...]
On a recent parenting class I taught to a group of parents who were going through divorce, a mother asked me if she “had” to talk to her ex-husband’s new girlfriend.
My answer to her was in the form of another question: “would you want to know what kind of person will feed, supervised, and interact [...]
I remember the first time I took my son to the doctor by myself. He was only two months old and his mother couldn’t take the day off from work, so it was my turn to do it.
I walked into the doctor’s office with my son in my arms, the baby bag (filled with diapers, [...]
Welcome to my blog!
I created this blog with the idea of sharing my experience as a parent and educator with other parents that might be struggling or need some advice to better deal with their children. I am not a teacher, well not in the in the academic sense, but I do teach a course [...]
