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August 23rd, 2010 at 12:58pm
Under Children+ Family+ Teens/Tweens
If you are a single parent and trying to start over you know what I am talking about.
Perhaps you just started dating or you have been with the same person for a long while.
Maybe you are thinking of blending your families or maybe you have already done this.
But it is not white picket fences and [...]
Continue Reading If You Really Loved Me…
Tags: blending families, Children, parenting advice, Parenting Calm, parenting powers, stepparenting, susan epstein, teens, tweens
By Susan Epstein
July 13th, 2010 at 01:39pm
Under Teens/Tweens
Making time for you, while parenting, can be a huge challenge. Sometimes it might feel like likes an impossibility…your job, long commute, household chores, kids activities, busing the kids to and from, laundry, meal prep, shopping, cleaning…..tired yet? So where do you fit it eating right, exercising, socializing, solitude, meditation and prayer, fun? This week, [...]
Continue Reading Are We Having Fun Yet?
Tags: Children, communication, making time for you, parenting, parenting powers, susan epstein, teens
By Susan Epstein
July 6th, 2010 at 10:10am
Under Teens/Tweens
Summer is a great time to put into place family rituals, things that you do over and over again every summer. It could be that you eat outdoors or that you take a walk together after dinner. It might be that you go camping or take some type of family vacation together or visit relatives. [...]
Continue Reading Creating Memories for Life This Summer
Tags: Children, family rituals, family time, parenting advice, parenting powers, summer vacations, susan epstein, teens, tweens
By Susan Epstein
March 23rd, 2009 at 07:18am
Under Teens/Tweens
Daniel Rosenkrantz, Coaching Parents of Teens
Some parents are so busy that they have to schedule on their calendar when they are going to spend time with their children. Because of work, personal, and other responsibilities and commitments, they have one half hour each day to sit down and find out what’s going on with their [...]
Continue Reading Listen Up!
Tags: bonding with teens, communication with teens, Listening to Teens, Parenting advice teens, teens
By Susan Epstein
March 16th, 2009 at 06:55am
Under Teens/Tweens
Daniel Rosenkrantz, Coaches Parents of Tweens/Teens
“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for
authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place
of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their
households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They
contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties
at the [...]
Continue Reading Ancient Greece Part II: Teens are Teens
Tags: ancient greece, Facebook, Socrates, technology, teens
By Susan Epstein
