Do you have a homework zone set up in your home?

It doesn’t have to be a dedicated room, but having a dedicated space for homework time with easily accessible supplies helps children focus on their homework and complete it without being distracted by clutter or chaos.

For older kids and teens, this might be a corner of their bedroom with a desk and computer. For younger kids, it may just be the kitchen table or a corner of the counter.

The keys are having a space that is clear of surface clutter and keeping the basic supplies they need in a convenient location. If you’re not using a desk for the homework zone, you could fill a basket with extra lined paper and pencils as well as a ruler and any other supplies they need on a regular basis, or you could use a drawer in your kitchen or coffee table.

Help kids set up a system for completed school work. A lot of it will need to go in their binder  or a folder to take back to school. However, some of it can be filed away, and some may need to be kept in file trays or organizers on the desk for easy reference.

It’s important to consider the atmosphere of the area as well. While having kids do homework in the main area of your home may be convenient and seem like a good idea, it could also lead to a lot of distractions if your home is a busy one.  You might consider playing soft music or using aromatherapy to help them focus.

As with everything, it’s important to be flexible. You may find that your first setup isn’t working well for everyone and that you need to move things around to find a homework zone that will work. Don’t be afraid to try a few different things!

Do you have a dedicated homework zone for your kids? What’s the biggest challenge in setting one up? What’s the best thing you’ve included as part as your homework zone?

Mandi Ehman is a work-at-home mom to four spunky little girls. She believes that organizing only lasts if you do it your way - to fit your needs, your preferences and your lifestyle - and she shares organizing and time management tips at Organizing Your Way.

Do you have one or more children in your home that seems to repeatedly run late?  Perhaps they run around looking for their shoes, coat or homework?  Maybe forgetting where they placed their back pack the afternoon before.  Does it raise the stress level for your entire family?  It isn’t a very good way to start your day, is it?  Think of this…..Do you run late?  Do you often forget where your keys are?  How about finding your purse or shopping list?  Do you see the correlation?  Maybe not if in fact you are a mom who is fairly organized and then it frustrates you even more that you have a child that seems to be in disarray!

If running late is a key component to your mornings it is time for a change.  You can help your child gain tremendous pride in their accomplishment of being prepared for their day and getting out the door on time in the morning.  You have heard it time and time again; learning by example will get someone much further than just being told what to do.

I find that some busy moms I work with find it just plain easier to continue yelling 3 or more times trying to address the issue rather than changing their response.  Why do we fall into those habits?  Because - it is easier to stay the same than change.  Face it, we are creatures of habit, and yet even when a pattern of behavior is NOT producing what we want, we seldom see another method to reach the outcome we desire.  So stop and think about how your morning runs and how you could in fact be enabling your child to continue their pattern of running late and being forgetful.

Helping your child develop new habits starts with YOU.  Plain and simple.  You can certainly be the example he/she needs in order to come up with a plan that works.  As we venture into a new school year, it is the perfect time to develop some new habits, both for your child and for you!  I will focus on how you can help your child, but it doesn’t take a lot of thinking to see how you can adapt these simple tools into your life too.

Being Prepared

What can you do in advance to make things easier?  Thinking ahead can certainly help make a difference and calm things down.  Does your child have an activity the next day?  Is his/her backpack placed in a spot where it is accustomed to being?  You can even lay clothes out for the next day if that is a battle that ends up producing anxiety for anyone!

Remembering Tasks

I started using check lists when my kids were very young.  These are all items that need to be accomplished by a certain time, normally before leaving in the morning. (making their bed, teeth brushed, pajamas put away, etc.). This helped me out because I didn’t have to be the drill sergeant and it also gave my child a great sense of pride as he/she accomplished these tasks on their own!  In addition, once the checklist was finished they can spend the remaining time before leaving doing an activity they enjoy.  I find too many parents let their kids watch TV or play video games before the work is done and then wonder why it is such a battle.  Work before play is a standard principle in our home.

Decide what type of system is going to work for you and your child.

Work on it together and brainstorm about what will help them.  You may be surprised at what they come up with.

Staying on Task

This one can be completely aggravating for many parents - because you have a dilly dallier!  You know, the one who looks up from one task and is completely distracted by something else.  We have used different things at different times, but a few that work well are using a kitchen timer to keep a child on task, having a one task at a time policy - where they cannot move on from one thing until one is completed.  Also having them check in with you during their progress is helpful too.

Listening

Truly making sure your child hears you and understands the instruction can be half of the frustration.  So, have your child repeat back instructions and then verify he understands.  We also found giving too many instructions at once was not a good combination.  Give one task at a time and wait until that is completed.

Set a Schedule

We set up a schedule for one of our boys that helped him use his time in the morning.  He knew what time he was getting up, what time he could be lazy and “wake-up”, what time he had to start eating breakfast, cleaning up, getting dressed, all of that.  It was spelled out for him so he did not lose track of time and then be scrambling 10 minutes before we needed to get out the door  Slowly we began letting him try to use his time his way in the morning, and after a few mis-steps, he has managed to budget his time.  This is much more effective than for us to continue to manage his time, and they way we set the schedule for him also gave him an idea and something to go from to learn how to budget his time.  A great lesson all around.

Celebrate

If getting out the door in the morning has been a thorn in your side, sit everyone down and discuss how different the mornings are when things go smoothly.  How much happier everyone is, how enjoyable the ride to school is or the walk to the bus stop is.  Then think together what you could in fact do on the days that everyone cooperates and takes care of their own business to help the family out.  Have a special after school treat - it doesn’t have to be big, just something little, like a certain favorite cookie or ice cream, or playing a game together or maybe this - you do one of your child’s chores that afternoon since they helped you out?  Get creative, you can have fun finding ways to motivate you child to step up to the plate and be more responsible.

Susan Heid helps moms get the BIG picture on how their home is functioning and then helps them gain relief with a personalized plan of action to give life changing results. Susan’s training as a PCI Certified Parent Coach. a Certified Family Manager Coach and a ScreamFree Certified Leader gives her a unique combination to encourage and support busy moms in the art of Home and Family Management. Empowering Moms and Strengthening Families is her passion. Are you ready to make positive changes that will impact your family for generations? You can start by visiting The Confident Mom and requesting her FREE ebook, “Getting Kids to Cooperate and Become Team Players - 10 Essential Strategies and Solutions“.

With school around the corner or already started in some areas, families need to make their plans this week.  Especially if your kids have a lot of activities planned or have challenges such as Learning Disabilities or ADHD.  Help prepare your child with my tips below.  When you decide what you will do, decide when to do it and honor your commitment to yourself.

The following ideas and suggestions are at the top of my list:

• Talk to your child and ask how they would like to get ready for the school year. Involving them in the decision making process will build better success throughout the school year. Sometimes it may seem easier to make all of the decisions, but in the long run it is much easier on you to include them.
• Talk with your child’s doctor, therapist, coach, tutor and/or any other support person in their lives. Ask what they recommend to help your child start the school year successfully. Because they see your child from a different and specialized view, they will all have valuable recommendations.
• Ensure that your child has a planner that will work for them. View my Choosing The Right Planner article for some great tips and a handy checklist. Schools often provide planners, but I recommend that you make sure it will work for your child and with their learning style. If the planner provided by the school doesn’t work, use something that does.
• Look into a family calendar to help keep everyone’s schedules straight once the school year gets in swing. I love all of the options at Families With Purpose. I have recently started using Googles’ calendar application. If you are on your computer regularly, this could be a great option. To work best, I think you need to get everyone in the house using it. I’m still working on that at my house though. They do offer a print option if you need it.
• Develop a communication plan with your child’s school. Especially if your child has challenges at school with ADHD or learning, it is critical to have an open line of communication with teachers. You may want to write a letter to your child’s teacher, send an email or schedule a meeting.

I hope these ideas provide you with a great starting point for a successful school year.  Which of these ideas sounds good to you?  What will you implement?  Share your ideas in our comments and let me know if you have any questions.

Laura Rolands is the founder of LSR Coaching and Consulting, LLC. She is a coach whose passion is to support, lead and inspire independence and success for people who have either been diagnosed with ADD or ADHD or who are facing other attention-related challenges. Her clients include individuals with attention-related challenges and/or their parents. If you have any questions or more suggestions to add, please visit her website at www.MyAttentionCoach.com.

Use the excitement and energy of the new school year to check-in, reevaluate, and celebrate your family life.  Here are three ideas to help you.

Check-in on Your Family Goals

Early in our Fresh Start series we talked about writing family goals.   Use the excitement of a new school year to check-in on your progress.  Families can use this opportunity to add new goals, celebrate your successes, and tackle obstacles that are getting in your way.  Remember to keep your family goals simple, age appropriate, and SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-Bound).

Pick Something to Improve

Pick something about your family life, schedule, or routines that didn’t work so well last year and make a plan to improve it this year.  For me, I plan on getting better at making my kids healthier breakfasts and making the mornings less rushed.  Don’t beat yourself up over this, just acknowledge the problem and work together as a family to fix it.  No mom needs anymore mom guilt.

Celebrate Your Successes

Too many times we obsess about the things we do wrong or the mistakes we make and take too little time to celebrate our successes or the things we do well.  Now is a great time to pick one or two things your family does well and celebrate them.  Talk about your successes at your next family meeting or at your next family meal, and think about having a special toast with plastic champagne glasses filled with grape juice.

Help your kids ease back into “school mode” with these family fun games and activities.

1. Go on an Alphabet Nature Hunt

Have you ever found a rock that looked like the letter U or perhaps noticed a cloud that resembled the letter S?  Put the power of observation to work by going on an alphabet nature hunt.  Grab the kids and a camera and walk around your neighborhood, park, or forest preserve looking for letters that appear in nature. You’ll be surprised how many letters you can find in flowers, rocks, twigs and grass.  Be sure to snap pictures of each letter until you have all 26, which can then be turned into a nature alphabet book and enjoyed all year long!

1. Play Delicious Dominoes

Review numbers and counting with a game that is extra sweet!

You will need:

• “Bean Sprouts Healthy Flour blend“ (½ cup whole wheat flour, ½ cup unbleached all-purpose flour, ¼ cup wheat germ, 1 tablespoon of ground flax meal)
• ¼ cup cocoa powdered
• ½ cup, plus 2 tablespoons packed light brown sugar
• ½ teaspoon baking soda
• Pinch of ground cinnamon
• 3 tablespoons butter, softened
• 1 tablespoon honey
• 2 tablespoons water
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• White icing
• White chocolate chip cookies

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Line cookie sheet with parchment paper.
• Combine dry ingredients in a bowl.
• Add butter and stir until well combined.
• Add honey, water and vanilla and mix until dough is sticky.
• Press the dough on cookie sheet and place in the freezer for 5 minutes.
• Roll out dough to ¼ inch thick.
• Use a butter knife to make 1 x 2 inch rectangles.
• Bake for 12-15 minutes until golden brown.  Allow time to cool.
• Once the cookies have cooled make your dominoes.  Use white icing to make a vertical line through the halfway point of each cookie.  Then add dots first with icing then with white chocolate chips.
• Let the games and eating begin!

This recipe comes courtesy of Shannon Seip and Kelly Parthen of Bean Sprouts Café.  To learn more about Bean Sprouts visit www.beansproutscafe.com

1. Make Edible Crayons

This recipe puts the old saying, “don’t eat the crayons” to rest.

Edible Crayons

You will need:

Pretzel rods

Colored Candy Melts (available at most craft stores and large grocery stores)

Crayon Paper Labels

Directions:

• Break pretzel rods in half.
• Melt candy melts (one color at a time) in the microwave on medium heat for about 1 minute. Stir and continue cooking at 15-second intervals until melted.
• Stir melted candy well and place in a small bowl.
• Working quickly, dip both ends of the pretzels in the melted candy and allow them to dry on waxed paper for a few hours.
• Print out crayon labels on colorful paper.
• Secure label around each crayon with double stick tape.

Thank you to Mandy at www.gourmetmomonthego.com for this wonderful recipe idea!

Jenna Riggs is a native Northwesterner, who went to sunny California to study graphic design at the University of the Pacific, spent some time in sunny Colorado, and eventually missed the rain and moved back. Jenna’s design and illustration work has been in almost every category of visual materials from children’s books to marketing pieces, identities to advertising, websites to annual reports, and children’s themed home products.

Jenna is also part of Mommy on a Shoestring with Beth Engelman, their website and weekly radio show are chocked full of ideas on how families can live creatively and large on a small budget.

Thanks Beth for this great idea! If you want to hear more of Beth’s great ideas you can listen to the replay of our recent radio show.

Ingredients

• Small Paper Cups
• 2 Tbs Powdered Tempura Paint - any color (available at most craft stores)
• 3 Tbs Plaster of Paris (available at most craft stores)
• ½ Cup Water

Directions

In a paper cup, mix powdered paint and water.

Stir in Plaster of Paris until the mixture is as thick as cream.

Allow the mixture to harden-approximately 2 hours.

Peel off the paper cup and take out the chalk.

Repeat for additional chalk pieces.

Thanks Beth for this great idea! If you want to hear more of Beth’s great ideas you can listen to the replay of our recent radio show.

Mud Pies for Butterflies Recipe

• Combine soil, sand, and a pinch of salt.
• Add a flat rock in the middle for the landing pad for butterflies.
• Add a few drops of maple syrup to rock.
• Stand back and watch for butterflies

When working with clients who have ADHD, I encourage them to identify the ways additional structure can help them.  Routine and structure can help develop positive habits to overcome some common ADHD challenges like disorganization and poor time management.  Likewise, you can benefit from looking at the ways that structure can help your family this Summer.  Especially if any of your children have ADHD, the structure help creates meaning and calm in a sometimes hectic world.

One way to create or maintain structure in your lives is to keep family time consistent with what you do during the school year.  If you have a regular family game night each week, keep it up this summer.  Perhaps you could switch to outside games instead of the traditional board games you have been playing.  Even though schedules may get a little hectic in the Summer, be sure to have at least one family meal together.  When dinner is not an option due to evening activities, plan breakfast together!  Lunch can even be fun if that works with Mom and Dad’s work schedules.

It is important to maintain a consistent bedtime for children during the Summer.  While the time may be later than during the school year, consistency is key.  Don’t get talked into midnight one day and feel like you need to get everyone in bed by 8 the next day because everyone had such a bad day due to lack of sleep.  Consistency now will mean an easier transition back to school.

Mornings are another key area where you should think about maintaining or creating structure.  If you don’t have a morning routine, developing one now will really help you get school off to a great start in the Fall.  Have your kids practice using an alarm clock to get out of bed rather than sleeping the day away.

Decide what structure you will maintain this summer and start implementing it today!  Enjoy your family time together!

Laura Rolands is the founder of LSR Coaching and Consulting, LLC. She is a coach whose passion is to support, lead and inspire independence and success for people who have either been diagnosed with ADD or ADHD or who are facing other attention-related challenges. Her clients include individuals with attention-related challenges and/or their parents. If you have any questions or more suggestions to add, please visit her website at www.MyAttentionCoach.com .

Things are very different today than they were 50 years ago, wouldn’t you say? We would all probably agree that when it comes to parenting things seem to have challenged exponentially.  I see the relationship my husband has with our daughter for example and I am always amazed how intimate, fun and challenging it is. He’s not the father his father was. And I wonder, how does that happen? How do you become an affectionate, loving, caring, involved parent, when you didn’t have that as an example when you were growing up?  From his point of view, it’s as simple as doing the things he would have wanted his own dad to have done. But I tend to think it’s more than that. It’s a commitment to show up in our daughter’s life fully; it’s a decision to express love in words and in deeds. It’s respecting when she says no and listening to her, encouraging her all the way, not in spite of the fact that she’s a girl, but because of it.

When most of our fathers were raising us, a “good father” was synonymous with “good provider.” He supported his family financially, mowed the lawn, washed the car, and maintained discipline in the home. No one seemed to care whether he ever spent much time with his children; in fact, he was discouraged from doing so, and told to leave the kids to his wife. When you think about it, it wasn’t too long ago, when the main responsibility of men was to brave the wild best of the jungle, hunt for food and provide their families with food and shelter. Women were with the kids, pregnant, nursing, and gathering. Men were in charge of protecting the family from the outside forces and dangers. They were brave, strong and daring. Women were nurturing and kept the species going (thank God!).

I have discovered among my friends, that there is truly a new “breed” of dads out there. They are interested in many aspects of their child’s growth. It’s important for them to allow their boys to learn to be gentle and kind, not always aggressive and competitive. I also see them encouraging and empowering their girls to go out and be assertive, to reach out for their goals. I have noticed that the boys my friends are raising and I know that they will not be afraid of or shamed out of expressing love and tenderness. I see the girls my friends are raising and can’t help but notice that they relish their strength with a sense of courage and adventure.

As I watch my daughter rough-house with this “bear of a man” that my husband is at 6′6″ and 265 lbs, I can see that he’s committed to being flexible with rules, honoring decisions more than compliance, listening more and showing his love for this strong-willed 8 year-old whether it’s accepted, rejected or somewhere in between.

And that is why I love this man.

Sandra is the “soul” and “coach” behind the Soulful Parent. She has worked in Early Intervention, Special Education and has supported many families in the road to successful parenting. She became a PCI Certified Parent Coach® because she’s deeply passionate about changing the world, one family at a time. Sandra believes that life becomes a more enjoyable journey when you lead from your strengths! She can be contacted Sandra {at} thesoulfulparent(.)com and www.thesoulfulparent.com for more information about seminars, presentations and individual coaching services.

Summertime holds a million memory-making possibilities — from picnics and water balloon fights to beach vacations and camping trips — and offers an opportunity to break from the norm and just spend time together as a family. But it’s also easy to get so busy that we forget to just sit back and savor each of those moments and store them away where we’ll remember them for decades to come.

Here are five ideas for making your summer memories last beyond this summer — for you and your children:

1. Take pictures.
The most obvious way to capture your summer memories is with your camera. Take pictures of the special things you do as well as the everyday moments, and be sure to capture the places you go, the things you do and the people you spend time with as well. And most importantly? Hand the camera to someone else or use the timer to capture some pictures of yourself with your family as well.

2. Print the pictures out.
With the advent of digital technology, more of our pictures find a permanent home on our computer’s hard drive rather than in our home. While this allows us to capture a lot more moments than we would be able to with film, it’s important to take the time to print out some of your favorite pictures as well. Create a basket of loose pictures on your coffee table, send them as postcards to friends and family or add them to a standard photo album. To this day, I love to sit and flip through the photo albums from my childhood, even though I’ve seen the pictures a million times before!

3. Set aside time for journaling.
Share pictures and stories on your blog, start a summer scrapbook or record your thoughts in a classic journal, capturing the funny things your kids say, your new experiences together and the special moments you share as a family. Capturing those moments in words can add another layer to the pictures you may already be taking and also gives you a chance to sit and reflect on them so that they will hold a more permanent place in your memory.

4. Teach your kids to journal.
My 5-year-old daughter started journaling last year, even before she could write, as part of our first year of homeschooling, and it’s something I want to encourage her to do even more this summer and next year. Children as young as 4 or 5 can draw pictures of their favorite activities and memories, and you can add captions or record their stories until they’re able to do it on their own. Give each of your children a summer journal or create a family journal where you can all take turns sharing your thoughts and memories. Remember that it won’t be perfect, so don’t stress out about a crumpled page or a scribbled picture. In the end, it will be a treasury of memories that you’ll cherish!

5. Take video too.
Some summer memories were meant to be captured on video camera — zipping down a backyard slip-and-slide, splashing in the pool and singing songs around the campfire, just to name a few. If you have a video camera, make sure it’s in a place where you can quickly grab it (and where it will remind you to pick it up!) so that you can capture your children’s voices and energy as well as the still images.

Children grow up too fast, there are no guarantees in life and time is fleeting. We hear these cliches so often that they’re easy to brush aside, but they’re cliches because they’re true. Take time this summer to create and savor memories with your family!

What is your favorite way to capture summer memories?

Mandi Ehman is a work-at-home mom to four spunky little girls. She believes that organizing only lasts if you do it your way - to fit your needs, your preferences and your lifestyle - and she shares organizing and time management tips at Organizing Your Way.

Susan Heid of The Confident Mom

Transitioning from School to summer is hard on kids, but I think it is even harder on us moms!  If we have been lucky enough to have all our kids in school during the day, we are somewhat use to some time “alone”.  This abrupt change when that last bell rings for the school year can put some moms into the funny farm.  Seriously!  But with some quick planning and some deep breathing – we can all make it through another summer.

I would love to share with you a few ideas that have come up in coaching calls that I have had with other busy moms lately as we tackle the issue of “summer” and the added stress it can have for moms.  Hopefully a few will be right on target and make your summer more of a dream than a struggle.

Trading kids

So this is a great way for you to still have some time “off” even when you are suppose to be “on duty” 24/7 now!  Do you have a friend or neighbor with similar age and number of children?  Why not coordinate a day per week where you take all the kids and she gets a break and then she takes the kids and you get a break!  You could work this as an all day event, but I much prefer the before or after lunch schedule. Say you pick up her kids at 1 PM, they’ve already had lunch and off you go to do some exploring with your kids along for the ride.  I know other moms have realized this secret….shhhhh…… “The more kids that you have in your arena does not mean it is more work!”  Come one, you know what I mean!  Choose a fun activity (beach, park, zoo, etc) and supervise everyone having a good time.  You may even be surprised that you can get a few chapters of your favorite book in while they are splashing about.  The reward is your afternoon FREE of kids – just imagine how wonderful that break will be and what you can do during that time.

Routines and Schedules

This is non-negotiable!  Even though it is summer and everyone wants to be lazy and “hang out” you still need some kind of structure to create a flow in your home.  We have a much more laid back summer routine for the morning, but never the less the kids know what needs to be accomplished by a certain time and what they’re responsible for.  It allows for everyone to actually do something rather than waste the day away.  Some days it is fine to lay around til noon in your jammies, we even schedule “Pajama Day” at our house, but if it becomes a habit you are just asking for trouble.  Set up some expectations and stick to them.

Plan Ahead

Sit down with your kids and come up with some ideas of fun things you ALL would like to do this summer.  We have done this many times and it works great.  It is amazing what they come up with.  Then we take out the calendar and actually plan a time to do the activity.  If you miss this critical step you will likely have a hard time fitting it in.  When you fail to plan you plan to fail.  You might choose a day of the week to “do” these ideas, maybe Wednesday’s.  Then everyone looks forward to the next week and the activity that is planned.

Time Outside

So this one is an easy one, getting your kids outside – but they key here is getting YOU outside!  Stop dusting the coffee table, checking email or folding laundry – get outside and enjoy the weather with the kids.  You can even create a “deal” with them.  If you are outside for ________ amount of time, they help you with a household duty that you would normally be doing during that time.  Then they learn how to help out and how it can benefit them too.  I think give and take is a great lesson to learn early.  If they give you 15 minutes of laundry folding, they get you outside for an hour having a water balloon fight or tie dying T-shirts.

Easy Meals

Come up with some easy lunch ideas that your kids can either help you prepare or do it all themselves.  I especially love when I have leftovers and the kids just re-heat those.  It makes it great for everyone.  We do like to experiment at our house though,  so usually we plan one day in the week to do a special lunch recipe, making it part of an activity.  This can be making pizza, homemade macaroni and cheese or another favorite you have.  Make sure you plan ahead to avoid fast-food, especially if you are going to be out and about.  The worst habit you can fall into during the summer is quickly running through the drive-thru because it is the “easiest”.  At times it is necessity, but a little planning can prevent the trip!

Check Your Community

There is often a lot of great FREE programs offered by the library, community centers and even businesses.  Make sure you Google your local area for “free kids events” and see what comes up.  Our local area has free kids concerts, low-cost movies, puppet shows, and discounted park admissions that can all be easily found and enjoyed.  I cannot tell you how many concerts we went to one summer when my kids were fairly young – in fact they still talk about it and we are 10 years away from that time!  You are creating memories here – take the time to create the good kind.

Pray

Keep doing what you need to do in order to keep fresh and connected.  This is truly the best sanity saver that I know!

I am just finishing up a great Summer Calendar of Activities for Moms.  Make sure you check my web-site or get on my newsletter to be notified when that comes out.  A printable calendar for June, July and August with nearly 100 activities, crafts, recipes – all with linkable instructions, all for only $3.99. I can’t wait – it is sure to make your summer a little easier and especially more FUN, I know it will be helping me out!

Susan Heid helps moms get the BIG picture on how their home is functioning and then helps them gain relief with a personalized plan of action to give life changing results. Susan’s training as a PCI Certified Parent Coach. a Certified Family Manager Coach and a ScreamFree Certified Leader gives her a unique combination to encourage and support busy moms in the art of Home and Family Management. Empowering Moms and Strengthening Families is her passion. Are you ready to make positive changes that will impact your family for generations? You can start by visiting The Confident Mom and requesting her FREE ebook, “Getting Kids to Cooperate and Become Team Players – 10 Essential Strategies and Solutions”.