Good Parenting Brighter Children
Nurture Your Child's Wonder
Inside: Here’s why spending time with kids is the #1 thing, children and teens need from their parents. This blog explores ideas for spending time with kids and the dividends associated with giving your children both quality and quantity time. Spending Time With Kids I love being a mom, but raising kids was hard work with few high-fives. Most of…
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Inside: Grandparents play an important role in a child’s life. Most children feel their grandparents positively shaped their lives by teaching meaningful values. Grandparents also come with a built-in set of skills having “been there done that.” Here are ways to become a super grandparent. Super Grandparents Being a grandparent is the best job in the world. It requires some…
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Inside: Parenting is the most important work you will ever do. And every parent can learn to “Parent like a Pro.” Here are four parenting tips to help you on this exciting journey called, “parenting.” Like most mothers, I will never forget the first time I held each of my sons in my arms. It was love at first sight….
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Inside: Here is a music book that will change your child’s life. Packed full of ideas, suggestions, research and more, a magnum opus on the importance of music in your child’s life. Looking for a comprehensive book about why music is so amazing for building children’s brains? Look no further…my book, Good Music Brighter Children, is the book you are…
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Inside: Family traditions are the glue that holds families together. Here are some fun family traditions to incorporate into your home and why great family moments become amazing family traditions. Don’t you love traditions? And don’t you love practicing traditions in your home and with your children? Family and traditions go hand-in-hand. And, everyone–single or married–can establish meaningful traditions in…
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On Saturday, May 17, 2014, my husband and I went to Hobart Elementary school in downtown Los Angeles to watch Shakespeare’s play, “Cymbeline,” presented by a group of fourth and fifth-grade students from Room 56 who call themselves, “The Hobart Shakespeareans.” I’m sure you are thinking—“Fourth graders—what watered-down version of “Cymbeline” did they perform at that age?” This was not…
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