Blended families – families with stepchildren and/or stepparents – go through very normal stages in coming together to form a cohesive unit. It can take some time to evolve through these stages and for everyone to get used to the new group, but just because...
Parenting is not for the faint of heart, even when the world isn’t facing one of the most significant modern-day health crises. If you’re struggling to manage all the normal parenthood duties now with the added constant family interaction and home-schooling duties, you’re not alone....
There’s lots of strategies to help younglings settle, including “crying it out” (where the child is left to cry until they have exhausted themselves) or controlled crying (where parents gradually respond to crying over a series of scheduled minutes). These techniques have been able to...
Did you know the brain isn’t fully developed until about age 241-2? This means that childhood and adolescence actually extend way past age 18. The bad news is that the expectation placed on 18 year old’s to be fully functioning adults is probably a bit...