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...
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...
"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 ...
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...
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...
"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...
"I'm frustrated that every day I'm supposed to accept being talked to rudely and treated poorly no matter what I do."
I read that sentence three times.
Every day.
Not after a hard week, not during a rough patch. Every single day, moment after moment, this mom is showing up with strategies and e...
One of you sent in a question a few weeks ago that I think many of you reading this can relate to,
She described her 8-year-old daughter as fiercely independent, full of life, and expressive. She’s the kind of kid who sings while she does everything, and her mom loves that about her. The proble...
