I’ve invited Susan from Mariner 2 Mother to guest post a Mom Tip Monday today. Susan has a 7-year-old boy with sensory processing disorder and she’s taken a number of positive discipline courses focused on developing capable young people. Today she shares her experience with control and respect when it comes to working with a […]
2010
We finally took the kids on a plane together. And took a “vacation.” This week I learned firsthand that we cannot under any circumstances use the word “vacation” the way we used to now that we have children. Because, for mommy and daddy, it was everything but a vacation. Here’s the skinny. I had a […]
What do you get the kid who has way too much crap already? That was the conundrum facing the Heligirl household last month when Sweetness snuck up on the big 0-3. We don’t live in a huge house because we live close to the city. So our little 3-bedroom ranch (with no family room), is […]
I recently got this very exciting e-mail from Gayle, a Heligirl reader with a tween daughter. I was so thrilled by Gayle’s discovery and how incredibly positive her experience was that I asked her if I could share it here. In a nutshell, Gayle put natural consequences to work and instilled a sense of responsibility […]
Shortly before Sweetness was born, we joined a group called Program for Early Parent Support (PEPS) at the recommendation of my close high school friend. This amazing group matches up couples with children born around the same time into groups of 10-12 couples, typically. We’d meet with a facilitator (a volunteer who went through the […]
Mom’s wedding went really well last Saturday. I got there on time with all the items we needed for the kids to wear, I remembered my own clothes, and I even remembered my line, for the most part. We’d arranged to have our nanny join us and I’m so glad we did. She was amazing […]
For parents of young kids learning to exert their independence, power struggles can pop up a hundred times an hour. Every parent can tell a story of the morning that took a century when every last thing their little one was supposed to do (and had done a million times before) suddenly became a power […]
