Tag Archives: ready for life

How did you learn to be a parent? And how do you know when your parenting is helping to create a wise and capable future adult and when it is getting in the way? Having spent years working with parents, I see some repeating parenting styles – some productive, many …

Parents tell – it’s what they do. That is until they stop doing it. For so many of us, we think our job as parents is to tell our kids how to be in life – what to believe, what to do, how to live and on and on. For …

Face it, and the studies prove it, we overparent our kids. We tell more than ask, direct more than discuss and control more than guide. Maybe it is our scary world that makes us this way (we feel we have to keep our kids safe). Maybe we are just like …

Parents tell. It’s what we do. We have been on the planet longer than our kids so we think we know what they need and how they need it. Over-parenting – our parents did this. Their parents did this. It’s easy to see why it still happens. And I’ll agree …