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On Friday last week, my daughter sat down with my husband and me and outlined her reasons, beyond what she included in her note to us, about why she deserved a raise for babysitting her little sister. She was nervous (she didn’t know we’d essentially already decided to give it), but she very rationally explained…
READ MOREAt bedtime last night on International Women’s Day, I found a typed note from my teenage daughter resting on my pillow. It wasn’t a note telling me how awesome I am (wishful thinking). It was a note from her asking for a raise. Yup—you read that right, a raise. She babysits for our younger daughter…
READ MOREAs we have learned to live through and with Covid as a seemingly permanent part of our lives, playdates and gatherings are back in full force among kids and teens. But many of us are a *bit* out of practice. I’ve previously written about what to ask your child after a playdate, but there are…
READ MOREIt’s hard to believe it’s 2023. While there has been joy, there has also been a lot of tough stuff we’ve all made it through. So, if you’re reading this, frankly I think you deserve a “participation award” for making it through the last three years. It’s high time the grown-ups get a blue ribbon…
READ MORELast week, I shared how the parental controls and monitoring we use alerted us to a serious issue affecting a child my daughter knows. The messages I read as they described what they were dealing with were heartbreaking. But this is not a child I know, or at least not well. I don’t know their…
READ MORETruth: My husband and I use both parental controls and monitoring for our daughter’s cell phone. Yup, we’re the mean parents. 😉 It’s her first internet-connected phone, so using parental controls, we restrict the number of hours she can be on it, prohibit access to certain websites, apps, and content, and shut it off entirely…
READ MOREWhen my daughter was little, I remember hanging out with other mamas, and hearing people say things like: “Thanks for the invitation. I won’t tell little Molly that we’re coming until we’re knocking on the front door, because if it can’t happen for some reason, she’ll be so disappointed.” Can anyone relate? Found yourself in…
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Christy Keating is a certified parent coach, positive discipline educator, and motivational speaker. She is the founder and CEO of The Heartful Parent Collective, which includes Heartful Parent Coaching, Savvy Parents Safe Kids, and Heartful Parent Academy.
The mother of two amazing daughters, Christy strives to build a happier, healthier world - one child, one parent, and one family at a time.