Positive Parenting

Learn an easy Montessori kindness activity for kids! Perfect for all year round or even better for Valentine’s Day! “See, J?” I quickly responded to my three-year-old after the milk …

I remember the moment that parenting slapped me in the face. I mean that in the nicest possible way. The moment that defined me as a mother. That moment that screamed …

My father died on a warm 1977 August day, six months after my twin sister and I were born. When a friend recently genuinely asked me: “You don’t remember your …

The other night something remarkable – like “eye-opening remarkable”  –  happened in my parenting journey. The parenting moment was rare. You see, I rarely find myself intimately talking with one of …

I recently began as “reading parent” in my sons Montessori elementary classroom. No big deal, right? WRONG. As I asserted my adult self in attempting to mold young minds, I …

I am not alone in admitting that yelling is a natural instinct when my blood begins to boil and my children push all the right buttons. The thing is that …