Category Archives: child behaviour

Three Biggest Time-Out Mistakes

I’m not sure when the phrase, “Go to your room,” was first used by a frustrated parent, but I would guess it was probably about 15 minutes after the first kids’ bedroom was built. The suggestions we hear on raising our kids these days seems to change about as often as the weather, but the…

Teaching Kids to Have Conversation with Adults

Most of us have experienced trying to talk to a child and receiving either no response at all or a one-word answer. Honestly, once our kids hit adolescence it can be hard to pry a conversation out of them at all. When we ask how their day went, they often just say the dreaded, “fine.”…