by Michele Borba | Dec 10, 2012 | Communication, Listening, Discipline & Behavior
Advice to help you pick your battles, upgrade your strategies,boost a stronger relationship and keep your teen safer Let’s face it, parenting a teen is sometimes like walking through a minefield. They’re usually moody, stressed and sleep deprived. Then...
by Michele Borba | Dec 8, 2012 | Character and Moral Intelligence, Friendship and Social Competence
Five steps to help kids learn the lost art of saying “I’m sorry.” The steps work for adults, too! Have you noticed how apologizing has become almost a lost art these days? A great number of adults–not kids–seem to have forgotten how to...
by Michele Borba | Nov 29, 2012 | Discipline & Behavior, Self-Reliance and Agency, Selfish and Spoiled, The Big Book of Parenting Solutions
Parenting advice to curb irresponsibility, excuses and “blame games” and boost trustworthiness, accountability and kid responsibility Any of these sound familiar? “I forgot.” “Take care of this for me.” “It wasn’t my fault.” “I did some of it, but I left...
by Michele Borba | Nov 27, 2012 | Character and Moral Intelligence, Parenting
I think I have the best job in the world: I get to help parents raise the next generation and I’ve worked with a lot of moms and dads. I’ve spoken to over one million participants on five continents, appeared on over 100 TODAY show parenting segments and...
by Michele Borba | Nov 23, 2012 | School Success and Learning
Of course we worry about our kids. It’s only natural to do so. We love our children more than life itself and want them to be happy and successful, and when they aren’t it hurts. When we see our kids struggle, have trouble fitting in, or recognize that they are...
