by Bonnie Harris | Aug 22, 2023 | Anger Management, Coaching & Counseling, Confident Parents, Discipline, Questions and Answers, Teens
How to get your kids to listen (the first time you ask!), without the frustration of yelling, nagging, or asking the same question again and again and again, takes connecting with them-before you start asking. Q. My kids don’t listen to me—ever. I end up shouting till...
by Bonnie Harris | Jul 13, 2023 | Anger Management, Coaching & Counseling, Communication, Confident Parents, Discipline, Everyday Parenting, Expectations, Siblings
If you want your children to become respectful, responsible people, you must model that behavior. With poor boundaries, this is hard to do. Contrary to popular opinion, boundaries and limits are very different from one another, although many use the words...
by Bonnie Harris | Jun 5, 2023 | Anger Management, Everyday Parenting, Preschool, tantrums, Teens
You come home at the end of the day. Maybe you’ve picked up one child from daycare and another from a playdate. Your tired, you don’t have anything prepared for dinner, and you long for some space. And your kids go at it. Even if its loud fun screaming, it’s draining....
by Bonnie Harris | May 24, 2023 | Activities, Anger Management, Coaching & Counseling, Confident Parents, Everyday living, Everyday Parenting, Teens
I often read Meghan Leahy’s advice in her column On Parenting for The Washington Post. I saw this headline, How do I connect with my teen son while respecting his independence, and had to read what she would say to this mom. After all, this is totally my wheelhouse....
by Bonnie Harris | May 9, 2023 | Anger Management, Discipline, Empathy, Everyday living, Everyday Parenting, Mental Health
We all know what it’s like to get our buttons pushed. It feels like an attack and a flooding of emotion. We tend to retaliate automatically—it’s that fight, flight or freeze reaction. Typically, we lay blame on our children for doing the pushing or ourselves for being...
by Bonnie Harris | Apr 18, 2023 | Anger Management, Anxiety, Communication, Confident Parents, Discipline, Empathy, Everyday living, Everyday Parenting, Mental Health, Questions and Answers
Q. My 8 year old son is constantly talking back to me and using vulgar language. I tell him that is not acceptable, and he keeps doing it. He argues and doesn’t listen to authority—my authority anyway. He’s fine at school. Teachers love him. When I was young, I would...
