Parenting
From toddlers to teenagers, and even empty-nesters, parenting can be rewarding, exhausting, and overwhelming. Parenting is often a delicate balance of providing warmth, love, and nurturance, with structure, guidance, and discipline. While there are no magic manuals, we provide numerous research-based information related to practical principles that can help parents know what to do when things go wrong as well as tips for helping things go right.
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Positive Coparenting Strategies
Coparenting is important for children’s well-being but can be challenging. By understanding supportive vs. non-supportive coparenting strategies, as well as tips for effectively resolving conflicts, parents can develop a health coparenting relationship.
Parenting Your Young Adult Child
As a parent, watching your child become an adult can be extremely rewarding. After all, you get to see how years of hard work helped to produce this seemingly independent person you see before you. Yet for some parents, their child’s transition from a tee
Don't Let Anger Sabotage Your Parenting
Does it ever feel like your child has pushed your buttons to the point that you are about to lose it? This is a common experience for many parents. When we experience anger, our bodies release adrenaline and our heart rate and blood pressure increase.
Can I safely take my family on vacation during the COVID crisis?
With COVID shutting down state and national parks, airline travel restricted, and the threat of quarantine hanging overhead, most of us have been staying at home. It may be hard to remember the last time your family took a road trip or headed out on a we
Will my teenager look at pornography on his/her smartphone?
Most people struggling with pornography addictions later in life were first exposed when they were 10-13 years of age, and the addictions set quickly. Sadly, 12-17-year-old teens are the largest group of internet pornography viewers in America (Safefamili
How big of a role do I, as their dad, play in my children’s lives?
Dads play a major role in the development of their children from birth through adulthood. According to one report, “Even from birth, children who have an involved father are more likely to be emotionally secure, be confident to explore their surroundings,
How can I manage the COVID-19 changes to my family and work schedules?
The COVID-19 restrictions have wreaked havoc on the daily routines of families and students. These disruptions to activities and schedules can cause a great deal of stress. This means we need extra patience with family and with ourselves as we manage the
How can I acknowledge achievements when graduation ceremonies are cancelled?
Graduations are a time of transition and change, and might even be considered a societal rite of passage. So where does that leave us in the era of social distancing? What do we do when we aren’t allowed to hold graduation parties and ceremonies are bein
How to make date night happen with small children?
Before children arrive, there is more money, time, and energy for courtship. Throughout the juggling act of parenting some find intimate connections frequency diminished. For my spouse and I parenting, lack of sleep, medical debt, feeding difficulties, sl