by cheetahdesign | Jul 28, 2026 | Communication, Confident Parents, Empathy, Everyday living, Everyday Parenting, Grandparenting
Being on the “other side” of parenting, I have a perspective I believe is important to understand. Most of you are in the thick of it, and when your day to day is mostly conducted in survival mode—”How do I get through this day? I’m so exhausted. What do you mean pay...
by cheetahdesign | Jun 15, 2026 | Anxiety, Confident Parents, Teens
I’ve been realizing something lately. Parenting is painful. It is not the exhaustion of infancy, or the frustration of toddlerhood, or even the eye-rolling theater of adolescence. It is the quiet, cumulative grief of watching someone you love steadily and necessarily...
by Bonnie Harris | May 6, 2026 | Coaching & Counseling, Confident Parents, Empathy, Everyday living, Everyday Parenting, Mental Health
Dear Mom/ Step Mom/ Grandmother/ Surrogate Mother You know that thing you did last Tuesday? The thing that took about four minutes and that no one acknowledged, maybe no one even noticed? You tracked the unsigned permission slip with several phone calls to make sure...
by Bonnie Harris | Apr 9, 2026 | Communication, Confident Parents, Discipline, Everyday Parenting, tantrums
Your three-year-old throws herself on the ground at the playground right as you try to leave. Your seven-year-old has a complete meltdown at a birthday party, in front of every parent you know. Your teen yells quite loudly in the restaurant, “Would you just leave me...
by Bonnie Harris | Feb 19, 2026 | Anxiety, Confident Parents, Everyday living, Everyday Parenting, Mental Health, Teens
There is a question that we ask again and again in our parenting classes, especially as our kids grow and push against their comfort zones: Is this unsafe, or just uncomfortable? In a world that is increasingly aware of emotional and physical safety, many parents find...
by Bonnie Harris | Feb 6, 2026 | Activities, Confident Parents, Everyday living, Everyday Parenting, Expectations
One of the hardest parts of parenting (especially for thoughtful, attuned parents) is resisting the urge to help. Not the neglectful kind of stepping back, but the very human impulse to jump in, fix, remind, rescue, explain, or smooth the path when our children are...
