by Bonnie Harris | Sep 5, 2025 | Anger Management, Anxiety, Bullying, Communication, Confident Parents, education, Empathy, Everyday living, Everyday Parenting, Mental Health, Newsletter, Teens
If you’ve ever sat across from your middle schooler, bewildered by their mood swings, sharp comments, or sudden silence, you are not alone. Most parents, myself included, describe these years as some of the most challenging in raising children. And most kids, if you...
by Bonnie Harris | Dec 4, 2024 | Everyday living, Everyday Parenting, Expectations, Generational Trauma, Mental Health, Newsletter
By Shannon McNamara, Connective Parenting Associate Director Parenting is one of the most rewarding, yet hardest, things you’ll ever do. Not only are you responsible for guiding your children through their journey, but many of us find ourselves facing unresolved...
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 | Jun 11, 2024 | Confident Parents, Expectations, Newsletter, School, Teens
As far as I can tell, most parents want their children to reach launch-age fully capable of conducting their lives with responsibility and respect. When they leave the safety of their nests with self-confidence, feeling competent and resilient, with the drive to...
by Bonnie Harris | Jan 10, 2023 | Anxiety, Communication, Confident Parents, Empathy, Everyday Parenting, Newsletter
Instead of starting off the new year with resolutions you are likely to ignore, how about deciding to accept yourself and your kids just the way you are? You might find that acceptance is much harder than setting unrealistic goals that keep you in a state of tension...
by Bonnie Harris | Apr 11, 2022 | Confident Parents, Discipline, Empathy, Everyday Parenting, Newsletter, tantrums
As I sit blissfully holding my infant grandson, I am struck by his fragility and vulnerability. He is dependent on us, his caregivers. And we in turn look to every possible behavioral sign to determine what needs caring for. Is he hungry, tired, does he have an...
