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10 Parenting Resolutions for 2017

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Happy new year! May you have lots to celebrate in 2017. The start of the year is like having a clean slate to start over. It’s like putting everything gone-by away and receiving a second (or third, or fourth) chance to get it right! Resolutions made at the start of the year seem more able to […]

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Turning to Science to Keep Your Child Motivated

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THERE ARE A FEW truths about motivation: Multiple studies have explored the question of motivation in children: they have focused on why some children give up, why others succeed despite enormous difficulty, and why yet other children set goals they can’t possibly achieve. Motivation matters. Much evidence suggests that children’s ability to persist through difficulty predicts […]

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Raising a child with negative attitude

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A child with a negative attitude is a bore. They are a bore because when they say “I’m such a loser” you’re completely clueless about what to answer other than “no you’re not!” Worse, you know that your answer won’t help one iota. They are a bore because when they ask “What’s the point?” you […]

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Parenting the Shy Child: 5 Things to Keep in Mind

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Our daughter spent 18 months in day care. Not once did she speak during the entire period she was there. J, you see, is a shy child – a “slow to warm up” child. This was not our first experience of raising a shy child – our firstborn son had been a shy child too. […]

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7 Valuable Lessons On Parenting

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You’re never really conscious of the endless stream of information on parenting out there until you start raising your first child. Only then do you become aware of the information overload. Even armed with a doctorate in education, I still question whether my partner and I are educating our kids as we should: I catch myself […]

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