Tag: life skills

Family conversation starters for older kids

100+ family conversation starters

Sometimes I feel like I’m not asking my kids the right questions. I had a real desire to go a bit deeper and found the family conversation dinners approach. This produced a…

A quick guide to developing good daily habits for kids

A quick guide to developing good daily habits for kids

More and more I’m convinced that  instilling good daily habits for kids is the key to a good life – for both the kids in the future, and their parents right now. …

Let's stop trying to fix things before they happen

Let’s stop trying to fix things before they even happen

Every mother I know (myself most definitely included) spends a good proportion of her day trying to guess the future. What might happen is sometimes even more of a preoccupation than what…

The Sunday Box - a tidy kids technique

The Sunday Box technique: The solution to messy kids

The Sunday Box is a flat-out game-changer for getting your kids to pick up their stuff. I know, I know, you read this kind of thing all the time and yet, there…

Stop being so available and teach your kids resourcefulness

We need to stop being so available to our kids

I need to stop being so available to my kids. It’s driving me crazy and it’s stripping them of their independence. They don’t actually need me to think for them, do for…

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