It’s inevitable. At some point, every parent hears it: “I hate you.” Oh boy, that one hurts. You love your kids more than anything; your life pretty much revolves around them—now they HATE you? Ouch! The reality, of course, is that they don’t really hate you. So what’s going on? Your Child’s Behavior Isn’t Personal […]
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What to do When Screen Time Gets Out of Control? It’s easy for parents to feel lost when it comes to digital media. They’re afraid of reducing screen time and don’t know how to address challenging behaviors. Parents often feel like they’re grasping at straws, using a mish-mash variety of strategies from scolding and lectures,
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Worried About How Much Screen Time Your Kids Are Getting? If you’re nervous about how much time your kids are spending on screens and mobile devices, welcome to the club! Fully two-thirds of parents say their kids spend “too much” time on screens, while 59 percent of parents of teens think their kids are addicted to
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Parenting is full of pitfalls, but no matter our starting point we can learn how to improve our parenting skills. In the I CAN System, we nurture the bonds between parent and child by building up a “connection pyramid” layer by layer. At the foundation, we define our family values to clarify parenting goals. With
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One of the most destructive effects of a distorted perspective is that we beat ourselves up for falling short of the unrealistic expectations it sets up. We start to repeat the story to ourselves in judgmental ways.
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If you feel like a bad parent, you’re not alone. As parents, it’s easy to worry that we’re not doing the best job. Other families seem to have such an easy time of it! We feel guilty or inadequate and wonder if we may actually be bad parents. Most of us feel like we’re falling
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