Category Archives: Adolescence

Confronting Independence

Everyone grows up with some level of attachment to our parents. In order to be able to have a healthy attachment to your child-which has multitudes of short term and long term health benefits to you both, one must be able to honestly assess their own emotional bond to their parents. One must ask, how did my parents do at keeping me safe, seen, secure and soothed?

Raising Financially Conscious Kids: Q&A With New York Time’s Bestseller Ron Lieber

A conversation about money is a conversation about values. NYT’s best-selling author Ron Lieber talks to Nurture: Family Education and Guidance about how to raise financially savvy kids with gratitude and grace.

Helping Your Child Through Bold Anger: Crisis Management 101

The goal of any intervention is for the child to come away empowered and better able to self-regulate and solve problems without adult help. What one does not want to happen is for a power struggle to ensue.

Parenting with Rewards and Intrinsic Motivation

Behavior.  Ah. There is so much noise out there on the internet about how to get your children to behave better.  The commonly accepted way of getting your children to do something usually comes back to what social scientists refer to as Behaviorism.  Behaviorism means conditioning someone to alter certain behavior patterns in spite of thought or feeling.  ThereContinue reading “Parenting with Rewards and Intrinsic Motivation”

Rotate the Blame

Even if your children are the best of friends they will inevitably argue fight and blame each other at times.  Even the best parent doesn’t always know who is telling the truth and who did what.  So what do you do in this situation?  Blame the oldest?  Blame the youngest? You can probably justify each.  AccordingContinue reading “Rotate the Blame”

3 Foundational Parenting Principles

The Parenting Philosophy of Rochester Parenting Coach can be summed up in 3 basic foundational parenting principles: KISS, set yourself up for success, and there is hope.  Essential to these principles is my mission is to empower parents with reflection, intention, and improved communication.  While my hope that your family dynamic improves, my intention isContinue reading “3 Foundational Parenting Principles”