by Bonnie Harris | Oct 19, 2020 | Confident Parents, Everyday living, Everyday Parenting, Holidays, Questions and Answers
Q. I have a very strong-willed, acting out 8-year-old boy. I only recently read and started implementing your 8 principles book and watched your YouTube videos and am trying to implement your “connective parenting” approach which has already been very helpful. But I...
by Bonnie Harris | Jan 10, 2020 | Activities, Current Events, Everyday living, Holidays
The key to becoming a better and happier parent is NOT to add on more to-dos. Especially expectations of yourself and your kids none of you can be successful meeting. You’ll all feel worse. You may want to do things better, but I promise that most likely means doing...
by Bonnie Harris | Nov 26, 2019 | Activities, Communication, Holidays, Questions and Answers
Q. I have worked hard to raise my boys, 5 and 8, very differently from how I was raised. I have followed your principles of Connective Parenting and want to stick with them. One of my boys is very strong-willed and, as you say, “won’t take no for an answer”. The other...
by Bonnie Harris | Dec 31, 2016 | Everyday Parenting, Holidays
If you’re making New Year’s resolutions this year, remember less is more. The key to becoming a better and happier parent in the new year is NOT to add on any expectations of yourself that you can’t be successful meeting. You’ll just feel worse. That does no one any...
by Bonnie Harris | Dec 9, 2016 | Everyday living, Everyday Parenting, Holidays
When long-held childhood beliefs are dashed, parents need to pick up the pieces and initiate children into the keepers of the secrets. “Mom, you’re the tooth fairy, aren’t you?” accused my nine year old daughter out of the blue one morning holding the evidence in her...
