Parenting

“My son will not sit in circle time,” one mother told me of her kid’s challenging behavior. “The principal is constantly calling about my son’s behavior on the bus. What can I do? I am not even there,” another mother bemoaned. “The teacher keeps calling me to complain about my daughter’s slow pace. When my […]

in order to build positive social skills behaviors, we have changed things.. but not enough. Gym class was 45 minutes of purgatory for me in elementary school. I could not catch a ball and I was just not athletic. Try as I might, I was last picked. We have eliminated picking kids for teams and

A girl with a snotty tone is standing in front of me in line to a haunted hayride. She says snarky things to her friends – clearly a queen bee. She is mean in that cruel, covert, and subtle way. It’s all about the tone and how you look at the person as if the

I am reading the Little House On The Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder to my daughter. I kept my old copies from childhood, the ones I read in fourth grade. I have kept these books for years because they were the first chapter books I read on my own. When I look at the

My first real coaching experience was at age 13 with my cousin Aiden (not his real name). I was his nanny that summer. Aiden was 5 years old. His parents taught at a prestigious boarding school every day during the summer, and I was tasked with being his guardian. Despite my age, I felt like