Your work is such a hope-giver for parents
Larry Moffitt, Editor,  United Press International

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Articles for Parents


Perfection in the Imperfect: When overwhelmed trying to fix everything, what can nature teach us about the perfection in the imperfect. click here to read

Keys to Stress Free Mornings: If your school morning ritual consists of lost shoes, worries over teacher expectations, the homework-eating dog and your constant nagging, laying a foundation may be just what you need. click here to read

You Can Heal Your Life As a Parent:  What the mother of motivation, Louise Hay, has to say about parenting can change your life and the lives of your children forever. click here to read

Helping Your Children Discover Joy:  The secret to finding joy in your family may be as simple as a walk in the woods  click here to read

Teaching Compassion to Your Children: A simple act of kindness, by a three year old child, brings light to the life of a homeless man. And what a gift for the growth of a child's heart. click here to read

Better Fuel Efficiency in Your Family's Car: There are a number of steps you can take to increase fuel efficiency. Many of these measures have been well publicized but not everyone has followed through. You can save several hundreds of dollars in fuel costs annually by doing the following.  Click here to learn more

Teaching Values to Children: We’ve all been there as parents.  Picture this:  Your son or daughter can’t find their shoes, and it is time to leave.  You are already late to school. The chaos begins.  There might even be some crying, maybe raised voices throughout the frantic search.  The shoes are finally found, but your comments about responsibility continue in the car all the way to school.  Your child gets out of the car, and you both feel bad.  Sound familiar? Just imagine if you could teach responsibility in a way that is proactive and done in a calm environment. Click here to learn how

Inspiring Self-Confidence in Your Child, One Book at a Time: A sense of belonging is very important to children’s self-confidence and many of them fear standing out from the crowd. But in an increasingly diverse world, differences abound. Books can be great tools for teaching kids how to embrace these differences—and for showing that other children may not be as different as they appear. click here to read

Get Ready for a Great Life: Fill a Bucket:  Nothing can make your life and the lives of your children more fulfilling than to perform intentional acts of kindness. click here to read

The 9 Biggest Mistakes in Post-Divorce Parenting: Some parents think once they are divorced and most of the decisions have been made, the worst is behind them. Unfortunately, parenting after divorce is a week by week experience. click here to read


Resources for Parents, Teachers and Guidance Counselors of Special Needs Children

Easy Steps to Improving Your Child’s Behaviors: Is your child hyperactive, distractible, fidgety and impulsive, has problems sitting quietly? Is your child disengaged, passive, self absorbed, dreamy?
Does he miss things or is he unaware of things going on around him? Is your child overly sensitive, over-reacting to sounds, being touched, movements and different foods?  Sensory Integration issues might be the cause.  Click here to read

Success Strategies for Special Needs Children:  What society deems imperfect is perfection made manifest. Every special needs child has been brought to this earth to teach us and all of humanity a multitude of gifts. click here to read

Special Needs Children, Extraordinary Adults:  What is the secret Marlee Matlin, Bill Gates, Albert Einstein, Cher, Jay Leno, and Whoppi Goldberg have that can change the life of your child? click here to read

Success Strategies for Children with CAPD, Central Auditory Processing Disorder  click here to read
 

Resources for Stress Relief and Spirituality

The Climb:  There are many of you who are climbing through circumstances in your life that appear to be undesirable. As one who has climbed many times in my life I know how much you want things to change. What I have found though is that the only thing we can change is ourselves, our perspective and our relationship to the circumstances in our lives. click here to read

The Path to Wholeness:  If life has broken you open, is there a way to regain your strength and find more peace than you ever imagined?  Read this article and be inspired by the possibilities that await you.  Click here 

Helping Children Overcome Fear: As parents each of us will be called to soothe, comfort, and calm our children when they are scared. So what steps can you take to help our children let go of the fear? click here to read

An Endless Reserve of Strength: As a parent what do you do when you have reached your limit, when you have nothing left to give; where can you turn for strength? click here to read

Prayer for Peace: One of the great frustration of watching news stories of the fighting in the Middle East is the utter sense of powerlessness I feel as an individual. What can each of our families do to bring light to the darkness they are experiencing? Click here to read

The Power of the Serenity Prayer: For decades, The Serenity Prayer has given comfort, strength and peace to those in recovery. How can we use the serenity prayer to help us raise our kids to their fullest potential? Click here to read

Parenting in The Storms:  As hurricane season begins we do everything to prepare for potential disasters. But, how do we, as parents, prepare to live life fully and with extraordinary joy? Click here to read

Fly with Joy: When you are facing obstacles pray that the creator make his presence known, then pay attention for the signs that you are safe in the arms of God. Click here to read

Resources for Achieving Peaceful, Loving Relationships

Children Teachers of Peace: In this era of global disharmony and conflict, what would happen if 500 children found the keys to peace? How different would our world be if those same children taught us what they discovered . . . and one by one, we decided to change the world? click here to read

Stop Fighting and Start Connecting: Would you like to create a home filled with peace; say what's on your mind without getting others angry; release stress and anger; have more harmonious, loving relationships and stop the fighting once and for all? If so, read on because this might be the most important information you'll ever read.   click here to read