by Lisa McCrohan | Mar 6, 2019 | Parenting with Compassion, Regarding Our Children
I have parents ask me all the time: how do I motivate my child to do better in school (do chores, help out around the house, be nice to their siblings)? What do you do with an entitled teen – who expects to get the latest video game or a cell phone? Answer:...
by Lisa McCrohan | Feb 1, 2019 | Parenting with Compassion, Regarding Our Children
What do you do when your child is angry? No matter your child’s age, the VERY first thing we can do to help the situation is this: YOU as the parent (teacher, grandparent, aunt/uncle, coach) GET GROUNDED. If your “fight or flight” stress response is...
by Lisa McCrohan | Sep 23, 2018 | Parenting with Compassion, Regarding Our Children
Promoting a positive body image in our tweens and teens starts with regard. Awhile back I was talking to a client who has a tween son. She said to me, “Sports have started up and OHHHHH my god, the smell!” She told the story of how he came home from...
by Lisa McCrohan | Sep 12, 2018 | Parenting with Compassion, Regarding Our Children
Anxiety in children is on the rise. Here I talk straight and get real about it. I talked to a dad in coaching who shared with me that he and his wife were struggling with their middle school-aged child. He had increasingly become anxious and even “OCD” about things,...
by Lisa McCrohan | Sep 8, 2018 | Parenting with Compassion, Regarding Our Children
Last night I needed to talk less and listen more. My family knows that I am not at my best at night. I am tired and sensitive. And yet it’s at bedtime that my children often want to talk. Sometimes I can barely handle it. I get more easily triggered. I don’t respond...
by Lisa McCrohan | Sep 6, 2018 | Parenting with Compassion, Regarding Our Children
We’re going to talk about something hard today: preventing child sexual abuse. I lived in Boston at the time when the first child sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic church broke and became public. Like many people, I was shocked, disgusted, and angry. It was...
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