According to the British Heart Foundation, the average person spends 19 minutes a day thinking about their regrets. That’s two and a half hours a week. And one of the top regrets people report is not spending enough time with their family. To help you avoid having those parenting regrets, here are some things every parent must know. First, know that small amounts of time add up in your relationship with your...
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It’s no secret that many men anger easily when their buttons are pressed. In most cases, the anger is not productive. So with our kids watching, how can we be careful to avoid blind rage? Here are 3 angry dad scenarios and solutions. First, there are the times when it’s no use crying over spilled milk. When your child accidently messes something up, you have a single moment to either get angry or get calm and...
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When it comes to disciplining our kids, we feel pretty confident that we know what we shouldn’t do: we shouldn’t react in complete anger, shouldn’t scream and so on. But knowing what we shouldn’t do doesn’t make it any easier to understand what we should do instead. So for all of you who are struggling in knowing how to discipline your kids, here are 21 creative consequences. First, try a “time-in” instead of...
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As your children become adults, a new chapter in your parenting life begins. To help you along this journey, I’d like to share some guidelines I’ve learned along the way. First, be involved but not intrusive. This may mean giving your grown kids general advice rather than specific solutions. In this way, they’re able to grow in making their own decisions. Second, be caring but not crowding. Often, we find...
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The answer? No, yes, and sometimes. There are times when a double standard in parenting is wise and times when it is damaging. To know the difference, here are 3 categories to think about. First, you should not have a double standard when it comes to the birth order of your kids. When we have our first child, we’re in control, fresh and ready to go. But as we have more kids over time, we begin to loosen that...
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When we were kids, we all liked to play “Tag, You’re It.” Once a person was tagged to be “it,” they had the responsibility to tag the next person and so on. My wife, Susan, shares 3 ways the game of tag can apply to parenting. First, play on the same page. Tag team parenting begins with being on the same page as our spouse so we don’t give our kids conflicting answers. Second, we must play from different...
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CEO Warren Buffet recently offered a one billion dollar prize to the person who could create the perfect bracket for this year’s March Madness basketball tournament. While the odds are astronomical, people still hold onto the hope of winning. In the same way, against all odds, parents still pursue that perfect family bracket…a perfect spouse and perfect kids. To avoid being discouraged by an imperfect family...
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