I decided to blog about Teaching Kids to be Good People by Annie Fox because the holiday season seems like the perfect time for parents to learn more about raising…
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That magical, yet often hectic time of year is here. And if holiday shopping, party planning, and the madness of the season have you stressed to the max, it’s time…
Chaney, a 12-year-old SPARC student, was uneasy about performing with her uncle before she stepped on stage at the school’s LIVE ART show last year. It wasn’t because her uncle…
Life never goes as planned, and Janis Clark Johnston, author of It Takes a Child to Raise a Parent, claims, since our brains are like storage bins, everything that’s ever…
While it is the parent’s job to show her child love and teach her child values, Janis Clark Johnston maintains, “When our child experiences a crisis, we can lose our…
“We all make mistakes, but we need to learn from them and move on,” argue Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman. “You can own a mistake, or the mistake will own…
When I learned that Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman had written a second book together I couldn’t wait to read it. These authors penned one of my favorite parenting books…
Part Two of Mom, I’m Not a Kid Anymore by Sue Sanders resonated with me much more than Part One had. In this book, which some label a parenting memoir,…
With my oldest daughter entering middle school this fall, I decided to read Mom, I’m Not a Kid Anymore to see if I could gain some insights into the inevitable…
RFM Reads the Parenting Books So You Don’t Have To I’ve been turning to books for answers my whole life. In elementary school, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret…
“If you think of a child’s world in terms of a snow globe, you can see how a child views the world around him,” explains Allison Edwards in her book,…
With anxiety being the number one mental health issue among U.S. children (and adults), I wanted a better understanding of why anxiety surfaces and what parents can do about it,…