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How To Be a Confident Parent

Are you looking for ways to have more confidence on your parenting journey? Weather it’s navigating your own path strongly, or not allowing others the power to put you down, this episode is for YOU. Dr. Vanessa shares her views on independence, and extrinsic motivation versus INTRINSIC motivation. Does your child achieve for YOU to […]

Disagreeing on Discipline? How You Can You Find a Middle Ground in Parenting

Disagree on discipline with your parenting partner? Do you come from completely different background and upbringing? The good news is you do not need to be on the same page to parent collaboratively. In this week’s episode of the podcast, during the on air coaching call, we discuss the topic of finding middle ground in […]

What NOT To Say and How To Say “No” Without Actually Saying It

What NOT to say to our kids seems like a simple idea but when it comes to real time interactions, we sometimes are not sure what to say. We could end up saying the “wrong” thing unintentionally. Also, it could be hard to say “no” to our kids without actually using the word “no”. Have […]

7 Tips on How to Build Self-Confidence in Your Kids

  In the April edition of the Monthly Special Episode I am joined once more with a lovely friend and colleague Laura Froyen. We have 3 segments: Examples from Our Homes What’s Up with You? Answering listener parenting questions Favorite Finds Segment 1: Laura shares a bedtime battle story of how she needed to cool […]

How To Set Limits Without Harshness, Fear & Shame

Setting limits with children can be hard for many parents. Often times parents find themselves conflicted as to when and how to set clear boundaries. They don’t want to be the “bad guy”, use threats and punishments, shame and fear but on the other hand, they don’t want their children to grow up without boundaries. […]

Are We Over-Parenting in America?

I recently visited Armenia with my family for the first after 12 years. Even though I was born there and know pretty much what the culture is but to my surprise things had changed. This visit was special because I was visiting as a parent and parent educator and I was very intentional to observe […]

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