by Brooke Romney | Jan 24, 2020 | Parenting, Teens
Improving Your Relationship with Your Teen: Challenge #1 — 3 Sincere Compliments Each Day Improving your relationship with your teen is something I care deeply about — and something I want to be honest about from the start. I am not coming at this from a...
by Brooke Romney | Oct 3, 2019 | Parenting, Teens
How to Go From a Bad Day to a Good Day With Your Kids Going from a bad day to a good day with your kids when a Sunday is full of unkind words, fights, sarcasm, intentional annoyance, short tempers, and downright rudeness — that is the scenario that tested...
by Brooke Romney | Jun 13, 2019 | Parenting, Practical Tips, Teens
External Tech Controls for Screen Time: The Tools That Actually Work External tech controls for screen time are the single most effective tool for removing you from the role of daily screen-time enforcer. The argument for teaching internal controls and...
by Brooke Romney | May 28, 2019 | intentional summer teenagers, Parenting, Teens
Summer with Tweens and Teens: 21 Tips for a Balanced, Connected Summer Summer with tweens and teens is a different season than summer with littles — and the families who figure that out early have dramatically better summers. The days of sidewalk chalk and bubbles are...
by Brooke Romney | Apr 19, 2019 | Parenting
The world loves a good redemption story, so when Tiger Woods, after years of poor choices, medical issues and embarrassing moments came back to win the Masters, people everywhere celebrated. I was among them, using it as an allegory to teach my teens how there is...
by Brooke Romney | Apr 19, 2019 | Holidays, Parenting, Teens
This weekend the almost impossible happened: Tiger Woods won the Masters. This is being touted as one of the greatest sports’ comeback stories of all time and is an incredible allegory for our kids for multiple reasons. Here are the facts: At 21 Tiger was the...