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Today we are starting a new 4-part series on The Small Things that Change Everything.  These are all small shifts we can make in our interactions with our kids that can make big changes in our family. Let's start with noticing more ... Online Parenting Classes: Renewed Hope Parenting 31 Days to Renew Your Parenting Book: 31 Days to Renew Your Parenting: Daily Guided Reflection to Take You fro...

We're not just raising responsible adults. We're raising relational humans. People who know how to notice when someone else needs help. People who understand that being capable of doing something yourself doesn't mean you should always have to do it alone.  People who recognize that sometimes love looks like folding someone else's laundry.  And today, I want to talk about why t...

Today we're wrapping up our series called Building Kids Who Can Handle the Hard Parts of Life. We've talked about disappointment. Frustration. Responsibility. And today, we're talking about resilience. After working with families for nearly a decade, I've become convinced that resilience is one of the greatest gifts we can help our children develop. But here's the challeng...

Today we're continuing our series called Building Kids Who Can Handle the Hard Parts of Life. We've talked about disappointment. We've talked about frustration. Today, I want to talk about responsibility.  Teaching Responsibility Without Power Struggles Online Parenting Class $9: Teaching Responsibility Without Power Struggles Ending Homework Battles-Free Training: Ending the Homewo...

Today we're continuing our series called Building Kids Who Can Handle the Hard Parts of Life. Today, we're talking about another feeling many of us instinctively want to rescue our children from: Frustration. As parents, it's incredibly difficult to watch our children struggle. When they're frustrated, we want to jump in. Online Parenting Classes: Renewed Hope Parenting

Today we're beginning a brand-new series called Building Kids Who Can Handle the Hard Parts of Life. We don't prepare our children for life by making sure they're never disappointed. We prepare them by helping them learn how to handle disappointment. Online Parenting Classes: Renewed Hope Parenting

Part 4 of our Sibling Series. Join me for 6 Quick Tips to help your kids build a strong relationship.  From Rivalry to Relationship Online Parenting Class: From Rivalry to Relationship: Raising Siblings Who Respect (and Maybe Even Like) Each Other

Do I step in? Do I let them handle it?  It's hard to know how to handle the many sibling fights our kids have. Let's talk about it. Online Sibling Class: From Rivalry to Relationship: Raising Siblings Who Respect (and Maybe Even Like) Each Other

Kids are constantly interpreting the messages around them. Sometimes what they hear isn't what we intended to communication. Sibling Mini-Class From Rivalry to Relationship: Raising Siblings Who Respect (and Maybe Even Like) Each Other Other Online Parenting Classes: Renewed Hope Parenting

Sibling conflict is not the problem itself and it is not a sign that you are failing as a parent. It is a sign you are raising multiple children, with different personalities, who are all needing different things.  From Rivalry to Relationship- Online Parenting Sibling Mini-Class  From Rivalry to Relationship: Raising Siblings Who Respect (and Maybe Even Like) Each Other Other Online Parenting Cla...

This was one of my favorite episodes to write and record. To celebrate my upcoming 10th anniversary of parent coaching, I am sharing the things I wish more parents knew. This one is especially meaningful. Our kids only get one childhood ... and it goes by incredibly fast.  Online Parenting Classes: Renewed Hope Parenting

Welcome back to Part 3 of the series What A Parent Coach Wishes More Parents Knew. After almost a decade of parent coaching, I have seen so many parents focus so much on behavior problems and wanting a quick fix, without wanting to do the deep work to solve the deeper problem.  Online Parenting Classes: Renewed Hope Parenting

In honor of the upcoming 10th anniversary of Renewed Hope Parenting, I am doing a 4-part series on what I wish more parents knew after nearly 10 years as a parent coach. This week's episode focuses on connection (yes, connection, that thing I talk about so much). So many parents come to parent coaching sessions seeking more behavior control ideas or bigger and better consequences. Usually, we...

To celebrate the upcoming 10th anniversary of working as a parent coach, I am starting a 4-part series on what I wish more parents knew. This week's episode centers around the pressure we put on ourselves as parents and how we need to give ourselves a break. Our kids don't need us to be perfect; they just need us to be real. Online Parenting Classes: Renewed Hope Parenting 31 Days to Ren...

Part 3 of the Playful Parenting Series. The way we play, joke, and find joy and connection with our kids changes as they grow. But their need for connection and relationship never goes away. Online parenting classes: Renewed Hope Parenting

Part 2 of the Playful Parenting Series. Difficult moments don't need more escalation. Sometimes they need a little softness and lightness. Let's talk about how to use playful parenting in hard moments. Online parenting classes: Renewed Hope Parenting

Join me for Part 1 of the Playful Parenting Series.  Being silly, having fun, and finding joy in parenting can help us through hard moments and build connection. Online parenting classes: Renewed Hope Parenting

I think one of the most natural instincts we have as parents is to protect our kids from discomfort. When they’re struggling, we want to fix it.  And that instinct comes from love. But over time, I’ve had to shift how I think about that. Because if we remove every hard thing… we also remove the opportunity for growth. Resilience isn’t built in ease. It’s built in learning how to move through chall...

We’re continuing our series on raising emotionally intelligent kids, and today we’re getting really practical. We’re talking about those real-life moments that can feel the hardest—the meltdowns, the overwhelm, the big emotional reactions where everything seems to escalate quickly. Because I think this is where so many parents feel stuck. We understand that emotions matter. We want to respond well...

Big emotions are not bad. They’re not a problem to fix. They’re a signal. They’re telling us something is happening internally that our child doesn’t yet know how to handle. And if we only focus on stopping the emotion, we miss the opportunity to teach them what to do with it. That’s where emotional intelligence is built. Online Parenting Classes: Renewed Hope Parenting 31 Days to Renew Your Paren...

Last week, we started this series on raising emotionally intelligent kids, and we talked about what emotional intelligence actually looks like. Not calm kids… but kids who are learning how to understand and handle their emotions over time. And today, we’re building on that in a really practical way. We’re talking about teaching our kids how to name and understand what they’re feeling. Because this...

I’m starting a new series on the podcast that I’ve been really excited about: Raising Emotionally Intelligent Kids. If you listened back to episode 15, this is something I’ve talked about before…  but I wanted to come back to it in a deeper, more practical way. Because we hear this phrase all the time. We want emotionally intelligent kids. But what does that actually look like in real life?   Join...

Not all kids respond the same way. Some follow directions easily. And some… push back on everything. I’ve had to remind myself — this isn’t a sign I’m doing something wrong. It’s a sign my child needs guidance in how to handle their voice, their emotions, and their need for control. This episode is all about how to stay firm without becoming harsh… and how to lead without losing connection. Online...

Yelling doesn’t usually come out of nowhere. It builds. You ask…  You repeat…  You get frustrated…  …and then it happens. And after? The guilt. I’ve had to remind myself—this isn’t about being a “bad parent.” It’s a pattern. And patterns can be changed. This week’s episode is all about the yelling cycle—and how to start breaking it with more awareness and less pressure for perfection. Online Paren...

You don’t have to get louder…  to be taken seriously. I’ve had to shift this in my own parenting. Firm doesn’t mean harsh.  Calm doesn’t mean permissive. It means clear.  Consistent.  Steady. This episode is all about how to hold boundaries without raising your voice—and why it actually works better in the long run. Online Parenting Classes: Renewed Hope Parenting