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    How Thinking Like a Therapist Helps Everyday Situations

    You don’t have to be a therapist to think like a therapist. Why, you ask, would I want to think like a therapist? Well, you don’t have to; but you will benefit from it. When you learn to think like a therapist, it gives you new perspective. It helps you to understand things a little […] More

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    Stop Bullying Now: Information Parents Must Have

    Bullying is awful. Kids who bully need to learn and parents who bully need to learn even more. Parents who teach their kids to bully by example and then allow them to get away with not taking responsibility for their actions need serious help.. There’s no reason that bullying should be something we toleration. More […] More

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    Dealing With The Question Of Where To Spend The Holidays

    Deciding where to spend the holidays can cause a tug of war between you and your spouse if you aren’t careful.  It is understandable that you both want to be with your families but sometimes that just isn’t possible because of distance or other constraints such as time. So how can you decide where to […] More

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    Halloween Safety Tips for Your Pets

    Happy Halloween! Finally, on this Halloween day, we have to remember that this is a day all about the kids and the spooky nature of witches and goblins and ghosts (oh my!) but it’s also about your pet. Some people want to use their pets as part of their Halloween celebration, and that’s awesome. Particularly […] More

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    Halloween Safety Tips for Kids Ringing Doorbells

    Happy Halloween! We’ve talked before about important safety tips for this Halloween day. However, what we haven’t talked about in terms of Halloween safety is what to do at someone’s door. There are a few rules for kids and adults that should be adhered to on this great and fun holiday. This is especially true […] More

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    Halloween Night Safety Tips for the Whole Family

    Happy Halloween! Today is the big day in which the kids are celebrating by dressing up and coming home from school with a sugar high, you’re picking through their Halloween buckets for “Safety Reasons” (ie – to remove all bite sized snickers and reeses cups for yourself) and the doorbell won’t stop ringing. It’s a […] More

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    Help When You Are A Single Mom With Boys

    Being a single mom is hard, under the best of circumstances but when you have boys, you have a completely new worry on your hands.  While both boys and girls need positive male role models in their lives, this seems to be doubly true for a boy.  How can they learn all of the skills […] More

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    3 Ways to Make Furniture Shopping Less Stressful

    Furniture shopping should be fun, but for the most part it’s a tedious drag. When it comes to shopping for new furniture, you’re likely doing it because you’re remodeling, replacing something a child or animal destroyed or moving. This means you’re already stressed and irritated when you begin the furniture shopping process. Here are a […] More

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    The Terrible Twos: 3 Tips to Keep You Ahead of the Game

    Ah, the terrible twos. In our house, we simply refer to this age as the year in which we are really going to spend more time traveling – without the kids (like we can leave them for long periods of time without missing their behavior like crazy). The terrible twos are a stage in which […] More

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    Marriage Advice from the People Who Know

    Ever wonder who, out of all the people offering marriage advice to young couples and newlyweds, has the best actual marriage advice? Here’s an idea; the people who’ve been there and done that and messed it up so badly that they’re not even married anymore. Maybe you wouldn’t consider the marriage advice of a divorced […] More

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    Getting Rid Of The Helicopter Parent Syndrome

    Being a helicopter parent is something that most of us don’t want to think we are.  A helicopter parent is exactly what it sounds like; it is a parent that hovers too closely for comfort.  A helicopter parent is a parent that refuses to give their child the space they need to experience a normal […] More

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