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4 Steps to ‘Parent Coaching’ to Your Own Child

Parent coaching is a vital tool that moms and dads alike need to raise children. As parents, we have many tools we use to raise children: teaching, advocating, counseling, discipling, etc. But oftentimes, we leave out coaching. Coaching empowers teens to become more self-aware, independent, and resilient. Through powerful questions and goal-focused strategies, families can…

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I Survived the PTA – Here’s What I Learned

I received an e-mail from the school’s PTA saying that they needed volunteers to help pass out iPads and laptops to students, I signed up, glad to feel like I still able to get involved in the school community, while also hoping to catch a glimpse of my son’s future environment. (All I got was a peek inside the gym, as we were stationed outside to distribute the students’ devices.)

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Parents: Just Because We Can Doesn’t Mean That We Should

A few weeks ago, during a conversation about the ways in which technology has infiltrated our lives, someone suggested that I watch a particular episode of Black Mirror, the Netflix series that is billed as the updated version of The Twilight Zone. In the episode, a mom, frightened when her preschool daughter wanders off from…

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Focus On Resilience In Wake of School Shootings

Each year, one of the administrators from the middle school tells a story to incoming parents. The story involves a chrysalis that is struggling to turn into a butterfly and a kind person who, after seeing the painful process, decides to help remove it from its binds. The problem is that it is in the…