Twelve New Year’s Resolutions for Kids: Stopping the Self-Entitled...
This is Resolution Three of our series to stop the self-entitled mentality: Resolution for Kids. 3) If I do something good, I should have a reward but not money or extravagant presents. If your child...
View ArticleResolution 4–Twelve New Year’s Resolutions for Kids: My child can cut lines
Continuing in our series to stop the self-entitled mentality: New Year’s Resolutions for Kids., we arrive at Resolution 4. 4) I do not deserve to cut the line at the front when I am late because I am...
View ArticleNew Year’s Resolutions for Kids: Stopping the Self-Entitled...
“Mommy, what was your New Year’s Resolution?” Kids want to know what parents are trying to solve for the New Year. They will help us parents with our resolutions but do your children have any...
View ArticleNew Year’s Resolutions for Kids: Number 6–Kids Quit
Continuing in our series to stop the self-entitled mentality: New Year’s Resolutions for Kids., we arrive at Resolution 6. 6) I won’t quit something I like doing because I am not the best. (For...
View ArticleStopping the Self-Entitled Kid Mentality: Resolution 7–Grocery Store Tantrum...
As author of the Paranoid Parents Guide, I am often asked by parents how to stop this new self-entitled mentality so many kids have. Some kids, even my own kids, seem to think every day is Christmas...
View ArticleResolutions to stop kids’ self-entitled mentality: Resolution 8–Stop daily...
Kids repeat after me: Resolution 8: I do not need something from the gift shop for every trip to the zoo or theme park. It can be as hard for a parent as a kid to pass up that huge-eyed stuffed baby...
View ArticleBad parent or good parent: summer camp all summer
Are you a bad parent if you send your kids to camp in the summer? Or ALL SUMMER? Are your kids in summer camp, summer school or just with you all summer? So I am nuts, I was looking forward to spending...
View ArticleBad parent or good parent: summer camp all summer, Part 2
Are you a bad parent if you send your kid to summer camp all summer? A friend who also writes parenting books just shipped her two to camp for seven weeks. I was appalled when I heard. Then I found out...
View ArticleDo you miss reading to your kids? Alveridgea & the Legend of Lonely Dog, the...
Do you miss the days of reading out loud to your toddlers? Now they are older, eight or ten, tween or teen, they read for themselves. And they have finished Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, Lord of the...
View ArticleParents’ Back to School Worries: Kindergarten Essentials, Tip 1
Who is more stressed: the kindergartener or the kindie’s parents on the first day of school? Who has more separation anxiety? Child or parent? Paranoid Parents Guide is starting their new series,...
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