I had an amazing phone conversation with a dear friend a few weeks back.  Her youngest son, who recently got engaged, had asked her older son to be his best man at his upcoming wedding.  We were both overjoyed at this.  I told her that she was ‘living my dream’.  I would love for my...

Do you ever have those parenting moments when you are at a complete loss?  I am currently experiencing this feeling in regards to my eight-year old.  He gets good behavior reports from school and academically he is rolling along just fine.  It’s when he’s home that I am faced with the moments where I scratch...

If your kids are school-aged, chances are, you already have expectations about what their grades should be.  You’ve seen what they are capable of and if they are falling short, you know it immediately. This week, my ten-year old got a ‘C’ on a reading test.  I knew right away that this was ‘bad’.  When...

At what age should meltdowns stop?  I only ask this because my second-grader still seems prone to them on occasion.  My fourth-grader appears to be able to regulate frustration and other difficult emotions fairly well, but he is two years older.  Then again, I am forty, and I still have my moments. The recurring struggle...