So many parents are obsessed with making the perfect decisions in parenting and with getting their children to make perfect decisions. It comes out in your lectures and your nagging, and yelling. This attitude often harms your relationship with your children and in your marriage. Remember that parenting is a journey. You will continue to grow and so will your partner. Your children are on their own journey. You have to teach and set boundaries and guide them, but you ca

Many parents become so frustrated, angry, sad, and disheartened because they're child is not living or acting in a way that is in line with how they are being raised. This anger and helplessness affects your relationship with your child and causes resentment on both ends. Over time your influence over your child becomes weak and possibly non-existent. It is time to change your attitude. Think of your parenting as planting seeds. When you plant seeds it takes time and pat

It is so important to get away from trying to persuade, cajole, manipulate, and control your teens. I want you to get in the frame of mind and attitude of influencing them. Your greatest influence does not come from finding the perfect punishment, reward, or lecture. It will come from focusing on the relationship, having healthy and consistent boundaries, and most importantly through modeling and happiness. If you are consistently modeling your morals, attitudes, beliefs,