The wrong snack was all it took.
One minute she was fine, and the next, she wasn’t. She was yelling, shoving her brother, and deaf to anything either parent said to her.
A TMP Times member described this exact afternoon to me a while back, her sweet, easygoing 7-year-old turning into someone sh...
My son is currently going through a phase where snakes, sharks, and owls are all the first things he says when he meets new people. “Snakes are hunters. Owls are predators.” Not "I like sharks" but they are predators, and “snakes bite with venom and squeeze.” He loves to act it out, too. Open h...
It's an ordinary Tuesday afternoon, just me and my 3-year-old. We had the playroom all to ourselves (which almost never happens!).
He's got his marble maze tower out. It’s the one where you snap plastic pieces together into these winding paths so a marble can drop, loop, and land somewhere at t...
In celebration of the 100th issue inside TMP Times (ahhh!! 🎉🥳), I wanted to switch things up and do a Q&A style newsletter this week. Over the past several months, I’ve received so many great questions that I haven’t been able to answer as quickly as I’d like. So today, I’m answering 6 question...
You're bracing for the next meltdown before it's even started.
By the 10th "no," the constant whining, the moment they throw your own words back at you, you're not thinking about scripts or positive parenting anymore. You're thinking, “Is this ever going to get easier?? Is my child always going...
One of you sent me this question recently, and I haven't stopped thinking about it since. I think almost every parent of more than one young kid has lived some version of this exact night.
They are very close and have a dynamic where the older one will start to get dysregulated, tired, hungry,...
"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...
