It's that time of year again (for some of us) ! We are trading in our beach blankets and summer sun for school books and crisp ...

Merry Christmas Eve! ( if you celebrate) Today, I'll be celebrating a few cultural traditions - one of which will be the Feast o...

It's Thanksgiving Week in the US and even as the non-stop ads for Black Friday roll across my screen - reminding me that I should ...

Well, it happened again.   Another school shooting. Another deadly day in an otherwise quiet town. Ironically, I had this #TEACHabl...

Do mornings at your house ever sound something like this? Get dressed! You're going to be late. I need you to get your shoe...

Have you ever said the wrong thing? Put your foot in your mouth - unintentionally ?   For me, having Aspergers means I feel safe wit...

Do you have a child with special needs - gifted, sensory processing, autism or developmentally delayed, OCD, ODD, twice exceptional or maybe...

Are you stuck in a negative cycle with your kid and no matter what kind of discipline you use - punitive or non-punitive - it seems no...

Have you ever felt stuck teet ering be tween punitive and permissive and not sure how to get out of it? Does it seem like if you d...

Do you or your kids ever struggle with anger?   M ost of us have dealt with troubling emotions at some point in our lives. Anger is a...

Is homework a struggle in your home? Did you like homework as a child? I wasn't a huge fan of homework growing up, but homework...

Have you ever gone through one of those phases where your child finds fault with everything you do - no matter what? Or, does it ev...

Many parents come to me in desperation wondering what they are doing wrong and why their kids are still resisting their limits and t...

T oddler problems? I remember a very stressful time when my daughter was young, and we were planning a cross-country move.  Not on...

I recently had to take the time to step back from work, the holiday scramble , and all those things that had me hurrying around leav...

My parenting journey has often resembled the constant tuning of a radio station.  When the frequency is just right and coming in cl...

Ever have one of those days where everything in your world just seems off?  No matter what you do, you can't get your kids to ac...

If kids model what they see and hear, then isn't sending them to school akin to submitting them to a virtual brainwashing academy b...