I cannot begin to tell you the amount of times I have heard a student or a parent say something along the lines of “I need a different teacher, they just don’t teach in my learning style”. It might be true that your student is having a hard time learning from a specific teacher, but…
There is a lot of pressure to preform in school these days, at least in the school that I am at. And when grades hinge on what college you can get into, people lose their minds the minute a challenge is put in their way. The top 3 challenges that seem to derail kids from…
It’s the New Year, so you might be thinking about what you want this year to look like for your family. What are your goals or vision for your family? Creating a Family Manifesto or Family Mission Statement might help, and this post will walk you through how to do just that! My husband and…
This post is all about how to get your child to listen and obey, right away, all the way, and with a happy heart. Does that sound like a bit of a pipe dream?? Keep reading to see what that looks like for our family this year. I have been flirting with the idea of…
Cognitive Distortions, untrue thoughts, unhelpful thinking patterns, these are all essentially the same thing just a different title. Now I know if you are reading this you are most likely a parent trying to help your child identify these thought patterns, but before you jump into trying to fix your child I want you to…
If you work in a school for any length of time it doesn’t take long to see that many students have a diagnosis of anxiety or a self-professed diagnosis of anxiety. There is an endless list of what is making kids anxious these days, but today I want to talk about the cycle of anxiety…
Parenting would be so much easier and less anxiety producing if I knew that what I was doing now was going to produce good fruit years down the road. I feel very lucky that for the most part, I have very little baggage from my upbringing and a wonderful relationship with my parents. I look…