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Talking To Children About Tragedies
By: Ann Brown Sadly, once again, we have been faced with terrible and frightening incidents in the news. The bombings in Boston came has a huge shock to all of us and many parents learned about it, or...
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Parenting Consultant: “What I Don’t Know”
By Parenting Consultant, Ann Brown As I write this article, we are already encroaching upon 2014. Because I am an old crone compared to you who will be reading this, I can remember, back in the 1960’s,...
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Parenting Consultant: Read My Lips
By Ann Brown On the agenda at this week’s faculty meeting was the book, How Children Succeed. The director had given us each a copy of the book at the back-to-school faculty retreat and we all agreed...
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Parenting Consultant: I’m Just A Girl Who Can’t Say No
By Ann Brown, parenting consultant I’m sitting on the living room couch as I write this column. My twenty-month old puppy, Phila, is snuggled next to me, her head on my lap. She is snoring happily. I...
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Parenting Expert: Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
By Ann Brown, Parenting Consultant There are some really uncomfortable moments while raising kids. There are moments that embarrass you – when, say, you’ve run into an old flame from high school and...
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Parenting: How Much Independence Should You Give Your Children?
By Ann Brown I intended to write this article on July 4 because I was thinking about independence, and raising independent kids, and that would have been timely. But last July, on the morning of the...
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Tips on Parenting: What Would Michelle Duggar Do?
By Ann Brown Discussions have been lively in parenting classes this month. We’ve been talking about practicing good behavior with our kids. Well, it’s not exactly accurate to say, “we’ve been talking…”...
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The Minimum Requirement for An “A” In Parenting
By Ann Brown There really are no new topics in parenting. It’s the old same themes, just with new details. Or maybe that’s what I tell myself when I’m on a deadline for a parenting article and I have a...
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Parenting Coach Q & A: “You’re Not My Real Family”
By: Rebecah Freeling/ Parenting Coach and Behavior Specialist Question: Dear Rebecah- My parents are acting as the surrogate grandparents of a very “spirited,” strong-willed, 6-year-old boy. The boy...
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Picky Eaters: Pick A Little, Talk A Lot, Pick A Little
By Ann Brown/ Parenting consultant Picky eaters. I was reluctant to write on this subject, as I have no experiential reference for it. I don’t think I have even ever said those two words together. I...
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