Parenting Tools

7 Easy Steps to Change Your Stories so you can Change Your Life!

Today we are going to talk about the Stories we tell our self and how they hurt or help us. Do you notice that you are telling yourself stories all day long?  Stories about your choices, what other people are doing, you name it. For instance, if my husband doesn’t do the dishes at night

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Can you have a best and worst day on the same day?

Access This Week’s Episode Here Yep…. This is where the 1/24/50/24/1 comes in handy.  Though sometimes it really can be 50/50 or 99/1… each day is different. It is so interesting, because in reflecting on my life most of my days that have been the scariest and best days have all be about Devon. The

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The best tool to monitor your child’s thousands of texts without drowning

Access This Week’s Episode Here Do you find it challenging to monitor your child’s phone? I will be honest when my older boys were younger, I would maybe check their phones every other week and it was so time consuming and mind numbing too! Then I discovered Bark. This is an AMAZING app that monitors

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A Much Better Thought than “I Don’t Know How to Do This!”

Access This Week’s Episode Here I was spinning in the ideas of: It was so stressful.  I was honestly stuck in this,  I don’t know how to do this! energy And it made me feel  Confused and worried.   While coaching with my friend that is when I realized I thought there was a right

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Cheerfully Using Faith to Mother a Teenager

Ahh, being the parent of a fiercely independent 18 year old.  I love it, so many opportunities for growth.  So many opportunities to try and let go of control, while also recognizing there are certain things I do still have stewardship over and have to set certain boundaries.  However achieving the balance in that is

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Drug Testing my Teenage Son AKA Another fun day at my house.

Access This Week’s Episode Here One night I had some friends over at my house.  We were having a great time.  My teenager came home, said hi to everyone and I thought nothing of it. A day later one of my friends called and said she had to tell me something. She sounded hesitant but said she had

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