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Ending Homework Wars

Posted: January 24th, 2011 by Michele Borba


Parenting tips to minimize our nagging and maximizing their Learning …until they can finally do homework solo style! “You can’t make me!” “Why do I have to do homework?” “Can’t I pleeeeease just go to bed?” Homework time in many families can be very stressful and tension-filled for both child and parent. According to a [...]



Raising Self-Reliant Kids

Posted: January 21st, 2011 by Michele Borba


Parenting strategies to help kids  solve their problems, be self-reliant, bounce back from failure and not use us as their managers, arbiters and palm pilots A mom was running late as she drove her two sons to school. “Can we pleeeease go back?” her six-year-old pleaded. “I forgot my stamps for show-and-tell.” Any other day, [...]



Hidden Dangers of Helicopter Parenting

Posted: July 16th, 2010 by Michele Borba


Why we must lower our flaps and parent for self-reliance Of course we love our kids. Of course we don’t want our kids to fail. And of course we always want them to be successful. But always doing, picking up, jumping in, solving, rescuing, or mending fences for our kids sure won’t help them learn [...]