How to get your kids ready and in the car in 50 easy steps
Remember the days when you used to be able to just slide into your flip flops, grab your keys and go? Yeah, I can’t really remember those days either. No…
Monthly Archives: September 2014
Create More Happiness by Celebrating Your Personal and Parenting Victories
If you have been following TRU Parenting for long you probably know that I’m a pretty sentimental man. I love a good reason to celebrate and make a big deal…
The Massively Under-Utilized Parent Calming Tool that You Always Have with You
Years ago I worked with a mother and her son that were struggling to enjoy life together. I was primarily supposed to be working with the son, but as a…
How to Re-ignite Your Child’s Love of Learning, Even if They Say, “I Hate School”
I hated math most of my school years. I’m not talking about a little dislike for the subject. I’m talking about hatred that motivated elaborate schemes to prevent or avoid…
3 Ways to Stop Parental Frustration Before it Starts
I am not the kind of guy that enjoys working on cars or fixing things around the house. To be honest a good portion of that kind of stuff I…
5 Common Marriage Troubles After Kids and How to Work Through Them
Remember this little poem from grade school? Girl and Boy, sittin’ in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g. First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the baby in the baby carriage. But…
The Most Effective Skill to Help Parents Learn to Keep Their Cool
Years ago I heard a story from a Mom that both she and I got a good chuckle about, however I knew it was no laughing matter in the moment…
5 Fears of Becoming a Dad; and How to Kick the Fear to the Curb
To be a father, or not to be – that is the question for so many people. Dad’s see that look women get when they see the newborn baby in…
How to Stop Tantrums Now and Prevent Them Later
I recently watched a mother and her little girl in the grocery store. As they moved past the freezer aisle of the store, the little girl let out a shriek…
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