CONNECTING FAMILIES

Connecting With Mixed-Aged Children

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Like clothes, families are made up of different sizes, styles and fabrics. Families are not static but change as the members change and grow uniquely different. As stated before, there is no single right way to enhance family connections but each family needs strategies that are tailor-made and adaptable to …

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PERCEPTION V. REALITY

Not long ago my brother and I visited a restaurant down valley from where we live. We had heard great things about the food, it had been recommended to us by friends and we were really looking forward to it. The restaurant was a casual Mexican place and we arrived in jeans and ball caps; I wasn’t wearing any makeup…

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Adolescent Connections

Parents have the difficult job of giving adolescents the tools they need to enter the “real” world as adults. The activity isn’t as important as the dialogue. Take time to develop this new adult relationship with your child. Help explore his interests, aptitudes, temperament and personality so…

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Family Connections and School Age Children

The first thing we need is time. We can’t just find time, as if it’s hiding in a corner. We need to MAKE TIME. We need to SCHEDULE FAMILY TIME and we need to PREPARE engaging activities and…

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Family Connections

Parents are a child’s first teachers and children learn through observation. Parents who connect and spend time together are teaching their child to copy their example. When parents talk, share daily experiences, express feelings, enjoy interacting, and genuinely show caring for each other, children notice. Parents can model being good friends, both to their mate and others.

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Childhood Connections

A Headline from the website of the UK Telegraph Media Group read, “Social networking sites are more important than family to one fourth of the children surveyed.” One could surmise from this survey…

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Trust Connects Families

I have worked with some children who trust no one. They have been hurt and neglected by others, learned self-reliance and shut others out. These children cannot be happy or connect with others until they learn to trust. The same is true…

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Nurturing Our Children

As time goes by there is no longer a need to hold and feed our children. They learn to walk and sometimes run in their quest for independence. As children get older…

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