by Bonnie Harris | Jan 2, 2025 | Activities, Coaching & Counseling, Communication, Confident Parents, Current Events, Everyday living, Everyday Parenting, Food & Wellness, Holidays, Teens
As the calendar turns to a new year, many of us reflect on the past and set resolutions for the months ahead. While goals like exercising more or saving money are common, the start of a new year is also the perfect time to focus on family relationships, especially the...
by Bonnie Harris | Nov 5, 2024 | Coaching & Counseling, Confident Parents, Everyday living, Everyday Parenting, Expectations, Generational Trauma, Mental Health, Newsletter
Nothing is more important for your children than your own well-being. One mom said, “If I hear one more time, fill your own cup first, I will scream. I don’t have time for yoga classes and coffee with friends.” I hear you. I would like to offer a different way to...
by Bonnie Harris | Oct 18, 2024 | Anxiety, Bullying, Coaching & Counseling, Communication, Confident Parents, Everyday living, Everyday Parenting, Expectations, Questions and Answers, School, Screentime, social media, Teens
Q. As I navigate my way through the influence of technology my fears are around knowing that I have a certain amount of control right now while my kids are 5 and 7, but what about later? I’ve taken the “Wait Until 8th” pledge, committing to not...
by Bonnie Harris | Sep 17, 2024 | Coaching & Counseling, Communication, Confident Parents, education, Everyday Parenting, Expectations, Questions and Answers
You know that stage-when your child thinks using “potty talk” is just too fun and funny to stop. But, what motivates this “rude” behavior? Q: We have a boy 4 turning 5 next month, and we really have a lot of toilet talk going on. We’ve tried...
by Bonnie Harris | Jul 9, 2024 | Coaching & Counseling, Confident Parents, Discipline, Everyday Parenting, Expectations, Teens
How do you think your kids experience you? Do they expect loving, positive attention and trust or criticism and judgement? Or no attention at all until they cause a problem? Watch yourself and see what they respond to. Whenever you yell, threaten, punish, or use that...
by Bonnie Harris | Jun 26, 2024 | Coaching & Counseling, Communication, Confident Parents, Discipline, Everyday Parenting, Expectations, Questions and Answers, tantrums
A Connective Parent asked about how toddlers learn self-control. Every parent needs real-life solutions to tantrums. Q. My two and a half year old is in the heart of his terrible twos with lots of tantrums especially when he’s had it by the end of the daycare week....
