This Is How To Be An Emotionally Intelligent Parent: 4 Secrets
u’re trying to calmly explain to your toddler why they can’t have ice cream right now. What’s that? They’ve just burst into tears? Oh, lovely. You thought you were merely discussing the appropriate timing of nutrition, but in fact, you’ve just triggered a Category 5 meltdown over the fundamental unfairness of the universe. And I’m talking pure fury here. The kind of rage you only see in an 80’s action movie when the hero’s partner gets killed. Anger for a…
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This Is How To Be An Awesome Parent: 5 Expert Insights
renting small children can be a Sisyphean grind, except Sisyphus is half your size, naked, and screaming for you to carry the boulder up the hill for him. Getting little kids to do even the simplest of things can be near impossible. You think you’d have the advantage, right? You’re the adult. You’ve got years of experience, a bigger vocabulary, and actual logic. But no. You’re not just battling their stubbornness; you’re dealing with the chaotic energy of someone who…
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This Is How To Have A Resilient Family: 13 Secrets From Research
you’ve never been in a family crisis, congratulations. You are either: an orphan, lying, due. And by crisis, I mean full-on, real-deal adversity. Divorce, grief, bankruptcy, etc. The life-wrecking, soul-scraping, “somebody go ahead and unplug me because I cannot” kind of crisis. You’re trying to cobble together some kind of Norman Rockwell-with-an-iPad situation while it feels like the world is burning. Just doing anything you can so your therapist doesn’t write “escalating” in the margins of your file. Life…
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New Neuroscience Reveals 4 Secrets That Will Make Your Teenager Motivated
ying to motivate a teenager is like trying to push a boulder up a hill, except the boulder has a phone and keeps telling you that it will roll itself up the hill later, just give it a minute. So you remind them. They need to do their homework or their chores. This will get you The Teenage Sigh. This is no ordinary sigh. This is a long, theatrical exhale so weighty it could be used to measure atmospheric pressure.…
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New Neuroscience Reveals 5 Rituals That Will Make You An Awesome Parent
e teen years. This is the age where one's room can simultaneously resemble a FEMA disaster site and a meticulously curated museum of personal angst, each discarded clothing item a testament to a fleeting mood or an identity crisis. What causes all the problems? The teenage brain. It’s a marvel of nature, a biological enigma wrapped in a riddle, encased in a skull that's often adorned with questionable hairstyle choices. But say a word about it and you’ll invoke an…
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This Is How To Make Your Baby Smarter: 4 Secrets From Research
ing a new parent isn’t easy. Babies are essentially tiny, drunk roommates. They stumble around, they're loud at all the wrong hours, they throw up on you without a hint of remorse, and they don't pay rent. You'll find yourself considering the merits of just squirting puree directly onto the floor just to cut out the middleman. And this is all made more difficult by the fact that they can barely communicate. Babies come equipped with a range of sounds…
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This Is The Emotionally Intelligent Way To Communicate With Kids
renting can feel like an inescapable theme park of chaos. Truth is, you're not simply a parent, but a negotiator, a janitor, a superhero, and the prime suspect in the mysterious case of the missing sanity. It's a job as exhausting as it is exhilarating, as thankless as it is rewarding. Little kids are certainly a challenge. They think mud is a food group and possess the lung capacity of a blue whale. To a small child, a closed bathroom…
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Ancient Traditions Reveal 2 Rituals That Will Make You An Awesome Parent
’re often presented with an image of parenting that is a bit too perfect. Like a Norman Rockwell scene preserved in a snowglobe. But all too often parents wake up to realize they were cast in a reality show without their permission. The kids cause more problems in 4 minutes than I could get into in 4 years. You wonder if your genetics have spawned an unholy chimera of you and you partner’s worst traits. It gets to a point…
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