Enjoy Your Children and Parenting!

There are always a ton of opinions about raising children. When are you are a single parent, it can seem as if you are judged even more than your peers. Do you use spankings or time outs? Is yelling harmful or just part of the job? Can you damage a child’s self esteem by being [...]

Parenting teenagers is hard work.  Not only are you attempting to maintain some authority in the family hierarchy, but you are trying to raise a respectful and independent adult. A question my friends often throw out is whether their teenager should get a job. At first I thought, that’s a no brainer, of course they [...]

Summer vacation.  For kids it is the pinnacle of the school experience.  Nine months of hard work to earn nearly 3 months off.  For parents it can be just the opposite.  Three months of constant activities, taxi driving and the dreaded “I’m bored.”  One of my friends said “You know you are a grown up [...]