How Kids Process Feelings

How Kids Process their Feelings

Understanding How Your Children Process Feelings

by Amy Egan

I am extremely fortunate to co-lead life coaching groups for women with a dear friend and fellow life coach.  Not only is the power of the group amazing and not only do the members learn from the coaches and from each other but we coaches also learn from the members and from the other coach. So what I am going to write about today is something I learned from my fellow coach, Robin.

“Sue”, a mother in one of our groups was bemoaning the fact that her thirteen year old daughter, “Kelly” seemed to share aloud many of her emotions, ideas, worries, hurts and disappointments. It seemed to Sue that he daughter was attempting to download her every thought upon her mother or anyone else who may be in ear-shot  and it was driving this mother crazy. It was especially difficult for Sue when her daughter was upset about something.

Happy Parents and Kids: Free Parenting Telesummit

Happy Parents and Kids - Free Telesummit

Free Parenting Telesummit: Tools and Strategies on Raising Happy, Inspired Kids

Ongoing through end of August

 

by Minette Riordan

Would you like to feel happier? Would you like to have happier children? Could you benefit from spending 45 minutes learning from the top experts in the world on happiness and parenting?

Back to School Shopping: Clothes that May be ‘Too Old’

Inappropriate clothes for young girls

Back to School Shopping ‘What Not to Wear’

by Ageleke Zapis

I remember back to school shopping with my mom as clear as any childhood memory.  Like many things from the way back machine, it was a rose-colored PG-rated experience, another thing from America’s kinder, gentle and long-gone past.

My mother and I always shopped at the May Company for my school wardrobe.  Together we’d pick out a couple pair of jeans and pants, couple tops, skirts, a couple of dresses for church and a few pairs of shoes.  It was all relatively basic clothing, no “fashionista” here. My options consisted of what color T-shirts I wanted, as opposed to today’s lipstick wearing little ones.  Though I’m all for letting kids experiment with clothing, buying children’s clothes for school has changed dramatically.  The choices can be overwhelming so as a public service I’ve developed some rules to follow when back-to-school shopping, to help steer parents clear from “7 going on 22 Day” at school.