by Michele Borba | Jul 25, 2010 | Empowering Girls, Late Breaking News, Parenting, The Big Book of Parenting Solutions
Parenting advice to raise girls from inside out and stop the outside wrinkle-free, large-breasted, pencil thin craze. Enough! Ask teen girls what is on their birthday wish list these days, and you may get a surprise answer: Botox! Yep, that appointed “youth wonder...
by Michele Borba | Jul 22, 2010 | Parenting, The Big Book of Parenting Solutions
Parenting advice to help you survive and (just maybe) even enjoy that Family Road Trip … Tips I shared this morning on the TODAY show. The family road trip is as Americana as apple pie. It appears this summer more parents are doing just that — buckling up...
by Michele Borba | Jul 20, 2010 | Parenting, Stress, The Big Book of Parenting Solutions
If you haven’t heard the news this should make you and every other parent smile. (And it’s about time). A seven-month study conducted by MTV and Associated Press interviewed nearly 1,300 young people aged 13 to 24 years old. The results revealed that the majority of...
by Michele Borba | Jul 16, 2010 | Self-Reliance and Agency, The Big Book of Parenting Solutions
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...
by Michele Borba | Jul 12, 2010 | Character and Moral Intelligence, Discipline & Behavior, Empathy and Kindness
Let’s play “Back to the Future” and pretend it’s twenty-five years from now. Your kids are grown and they’re healthy and happy. They’ve now come back for a family reunion. Here’s the key question: What character traits do you...
