"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., βYou have two choices - blue jacket or red one, this shirt or that oneβ), 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...
