5 Tips to Manage Your Child’s Routine During the Holiday Season
The winter season brings with it much more than holiday cheer and fun. Weeks and sometimes months of holiday shopping, traveling, food, and visiting family can create enough stress to exhaust the most festive of us. Children feel it too, especially when their routines are interrupted with an overload of events that are often out […]
4 Bad Habits Every Parent Needs to Break
Tallahassee Parents, The old saying “monkey see, monkey do” can be relative to how parents react to situations. Our reactions can easily be influencing our children without us even realizing it. Parents often feel their kids build new behaviors or habits from their siblings or other kids at school, however, we can be just as […]
6 Tips to Raise an Optimist
Tallahassee Families, Wondering how to raise an optimistic child? After all, kids who are more confident and optimistic are better at dealing with life’s challenges—and happier too. Here’s six tips to help your child. QUIT COMPLAINING Don’t complain or be negative around your children. If you are complaining about money or making negative comments about […]
4 Secrets to Help Your Kids Become Better Listeners at Home
Tallahassee Parents, It is not uncommon when you get a group of parents together several will say, ” My kids don’t listen to me.” As parents, we all go through this, however here are a few tips to help make things a little better. Your Child may have a good reason (in their mind) to […]
How to Encourage Your Child to Work Through Frustrations
Tallahassee Families, Children get frustrated when they cannot do something or feel like they are not being heard. It’s important for parents to be patient and forgiving towards their children and also themselves. It’s normal for children to exhibit behavioral outbursts when frustration hits, how we as parents handle it can make all the difference. […]
5 Foods to Help Fight Kids’ Colds & Flu
Tallahassee Parents, Among all the current challenges parents and kids are dealing with, cold and flu season is approaching and there are some steps you can take to fight these viruses. YOGURT It’s smart to give your kids some kind of probiotic on a regular basis. Probiotics are beneficial bacteria that can help strengthen the […]
Kids’ Breakfast Challenges and How to Solve Them
Tallahassee Parents, Do you have a challenge getting your child to eat breakfast? The old saying, “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day,” is not necessarily true, however you do not want your child starting their day with an empty stomach. Will They Drink Breakfast? Your child might not be hungry enough to […]