Tag: relationships

How to be a good friend

How to help your teen be a good friend

Friendships and connections are the strong scaffold of a happy (and healthy!) life.  However, being a good friend isn’t always easy – it’s a skill that our teens need to learn and…

How to make your kid's day

10 important ways to make your kid’s day

Go on, make your kid’s day! No question about it, our kids are our #1 priority on any given day. But do they know that for certain. Like, 100 per cent? Life…

Heartstopper from Netflix is a total heartwarmer

Why Heartstopper needs to be on your watch list

If you’ve got a high school-aged kid, chances are that the Netflix show Heartstopper will be on your radar. Everyone is watching it. Everyone is falling in love with it. And that’s…

Rules for teen romance

My 5 non-negotiable rules for teen romance

OMG, teen romance! It deserves an exclamation point. When my kids started having (gosh) intimate relationships it was equal parts life-affirming and terrifying. Probably more on the terrifying side of things, now…

7 steps to sibling harmony

7 steps to encourage sibling harmony + find some peace

Creating sibling harmony is a preoccupation of many parents. Non-stop bickering children are the bane of our existence, and probably have been for years. More than a decade, in my case. Sibling…

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