What IS #CharlieCharlie? There is a new social media craze, and kids of all ages are trying this one! Check out my attempt to make this work on national TV! Is it dangerous?! George…
Category: elementary school age
Your sick day can teach your kids #resilience and #responsibility. Even parents get sick. So how can a Mom or Dad – or grandparent or caregiver – handle it when there are still kids…
Kids and alcohol. Bad combination, right? So how do we teach our kids to abstain when we don’t? What do we do when we take the kids to a ballgame and end up sitting…
We make kids clean their rooms. But do they have to? This is an age-by-age guide for what’s possible, what’s reasonable, and what’s important for kids to learn. If you are raising or caring…
What’s the right answer? Parents, educators, caregivers, youth directors… everyone who works with or raises kids will hear this eventually. When we need to: know a password talk to the parents throwing the party…
“I want to walk by myself!” Many parents aren’t ready to let a child walk to a neighbor’s, a friend’s, or to school by themselves. The problem is that we know they need to…
Vacation and kids. A friend told me years ago this rule of parenting: “A vacation requires a cocktail, a plane ticket and no children along. Everything else is a trip.” What are you hoping…
Laundry. Very few people love doing laundry, but it has to get done. In our home, when you turn 7 you get a big privilege – your own (supervised) email account – and a…
How do you study if your friend needs you? There is so much work to do, but sometimes friends have to come first. The problem is, what do you do when… …you have tons…
Do you drive kids around? Did you laugh? Because some days it feels like driving kids around is ALL you do? Me too! Want to enjoy driving them more and have them need rides…
