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Hygge: Our Present To You This Holiday Season.

The Most Under-Rated Connection Tactic: Meet Them Where They Are. Connection, Part 3

Top 2 tactics wise parents use to connect with their busy teens

Make a meaningful connection with your kid today Part 1 of 3

Want successful kids? This often overlooked practice may be the key.

The 3 pillars, applied to devices.

How To Reduce Conflict Over Devices

Spiky Balls, Agency, and Natural Consequences

The 3 Pillars Parent Framework: It will make your life So. Much. Easier.

How to get your kids to do stuff, while increasing agency, belonging and connection.

The Rashomon Effect: Understand it to improve your relationship with your kid.

Are you still an influencer in your kid's lives?

What Advertisers Know (and parents can use to build happier families)

The Downward Spiral: What it is, How to prevent it, and How to fix it.

Bitch Quota and a Writing Prompt

How to make your kid tough: The Summary

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Dog Brain

How Outward Bound fosters grit and how you can apply their principles at home.

Meet Dylan: A case study in tough as identity; and "Our" hummingbird.

How to raise tough kids, part 4, an invitation to the Parenting Mastermind, and a rare cloud.

How to raise tough kids Part 3 and a Zebra Swallowtail

How to Raise Tough Kids Part 2, A Vacation Checklist, and Giant Sunflowers

How to raise tough kids Part 1, Kill the toad? and the Buck Moon.

Agency: It reduces conflict and gets kids to eat salad. Bonus photo of our Goose family.

BEAF: an easy framework for connecting with your kid, a real life example, and a spring sunset

90 years of resentment, A cucumber throwing monkey, and a Sun Halo

How to take a vacation your kids will actually enjoy, a vacation case study featuring a grandkid and her tablet, and discovering tiny wildflowers

Expectations - How to use the most powerful parenting tool, a case study in meowing, and Canada Geese at dawn.

How to have healthy expectations, How to have a great (Easter) weekend, and a super-cute rabbit.

How to manage your moods, the emotional tone of your house, and a butterfly.

How to help your kids manage their device use, a Mastermind for parents, and a selfie with a goat.

When a choice is not a choice, the most important skill, and a baby Sandhill Crane

Your logical reasoning can't compete with your kid's feelings, which college will she go to? and a Pot-bellied pig.

The magic 5 to 1 ratio, don't sacrifice your relationship, and a puppy.