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…
Category: Responsibility
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…
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…
Summer camp? Oh yes! There is no better choice for kids or young adults. Choosing a camp, getting ready for camp, going to camp, working at camp, staying in touch with friends made at…
Who doesn’t love THAT conversation, right? At least with teens it’s likely to happen in a private space and not during a church service, at the top of their lungs. In some ways, teens…
Go to sleep! By the time a child is supposed to be in bed, most of us have lost a lot of our patience. Whether you’re put your own child to bed at…
Teens drink. That assumption is the one that most adults make. We figure teens must drink, so the best – maybe the only – way to keep them safe is to let them drink…
“But I don’t want to!” How many times have you given a child a gift or tried to interest her in an activity or game, only to hear these words? Kids often like the…
Want to change a behavior in your home? I often find myself wishing I had a magic wand to change behavior. It would be so much easier, right? The truth is, though, that each…
“Shots?! No way!” says just about every child. Kids in the preschool years, and sometimes as old as high school, dread needles in a way reserved for monsters under the bed. Just the idea…
