If you have ever been awakened by your terrified child because of a nightmare, you know how helpless the situation can make you can feel. Although we cannot control what our kids are dreaming about, we can help them build skills to cope with their nightmares. Here are a few…
Why you need to be a failure
We throw the word ‘perfectionist’ around a lot without any thought of the real mental pains it carries with it. Being a perfectionist is more than needing to get 100% on a paper or staying extremely organized. There is major anxiety fueling our actions with the desperate need to not…
FOX 13’s The Place: A parents survival guide to the holidays
Click here or the image to watch the segment! A Parent’s Survival Guide to the Holidays The holiday season should be a time for cheer, but sometimes for some people, it’s not. Actually, 1 in 4 people feel dread about the upcoming holiday season. Most of the negative emotions towards…
Please stop buying my kids toys
I know why people buy my children gifts- they care about them and they think that a gift will make them happy. I very much appreciate the gesture and the thought that goes into these gifts, but here is the honesty of the situation- they don’t need more stuff. I…