"She has a very hard time going to bed on her own and will not let us go downstairs when it's bedtime."
A TMP Times member sent me that line recently, and if you're already nodding, here's the rest of what she told me.
Her daughter put on her pajamas, jumped straight into her parents' bed, and ...
It was the last evening of our 5-day summer trip to the beach. We were out shopping for a souvenir, something small to remember it by. We ended up in a tiny gift shop at the top of a lighthouse, the kind of shop where you have to turn sideways to get down the aisle.
My husband had escorted our ...
Over the summer, my daughters and I started a book club. It came from the realization that all our reading time was spent with us all reading independently. I started to miss reading and having conversations together. As they enter puberty, I also want to stay connected with them, talk about im...
Last year, early in the school year, my daughter was completely fine on the ride home. We were all having a great ride home catching up on our day. We pulled into the driveway, walked inside, and immediately dropped on the kitchen floor. She wasn’t crying or upset. Just…cooked. 🔥 She wouldn't m...
A heads-up before you dive in: next Monday, your Back-to-School Script Guide drops which includes 40+ scripts for the moments that make this big transition hard, from morning resistance to bedtime battles. You'll also get an invite to a live class with me in August, exclusively for annual membe...
"I've been replaying an incident with my son for the past few days."
Her 7-year-old came home from his grandmother's house on Sunday morning where he'd spent the night watching as much TV as he wanted, having his food brought to him, living his best life and within minutes of walking through th...
I've had the same conversation twice in the past few weeks with two different parents, two very different kids, and the same frustration.
The first flat out said, "I don't like when my kids lie. It makes me really mad. I don't mind if they do something they're not supposed to. We can figure tha...
One of my TMP Times members wrote in about her 4.5 year old son. She'd been trying the two-choices script (i.e., “You have two choices - blue jacket or red one, this shirt or that one”), and he wasn't having it.
She wrote: "He 'sees through' that and realizes that there is a decision behind tha...
The one thing that moves your kid, the guilt of pulling it, and what summer does to make it worse.
It's June. School's out, there's no schedule, no real plan for the day, and somehow it's only 2 in the afternoon. You handed him the iPad a while ago because you needed 20 minutes to yourself, and...
"Mine! That's MINE!"
He's 3, and the floaty is technically his. He carried it all the way in from the car very proudly, the large plastic device nearly bigger than him. Once we finally arrived at the pool, he set it down to get his sunscreen on and shoes off.
In those 4 seconds of putting it do...
After reading this, you'll know why your child's summer dysregulation isn't regression and what to actually do in the first week before the whole thing unravels.
It was early morning and I was in the kitchen when I heard my 3-year-old, full volume, losing it at his older sister.
His screaming i...
"I can't pull my phone out and say, ‘Hang on let me check what Dr. Jazmine says I should do in this situation as your mom.'"
“Ain’t that the truth!” I thought as I read one of the survey responses from a fellow TMP Times member.
I’ve also never heard the struggle described so perfectly.
This mo...
