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 | May 20, 2018 | Books
As a reader, I took for granted that my kids would also be readers, and I was confident in my ability to make them love to read. Then, I had four active boys who preferred balls over books, and I felt a bit lost. When it was library time they chose books I had never...
by Brooke Romney | Feb 11, 2018 | Parenting, Teens
The other day, my seventh-grade son showed me a text from a girl who is a friend. It said, “On a scale of 1-10, how cute am I?” Luckily, my relationship with my oldest is pretty tight, and he often shares the little and big things going on in his life. He...
by Brooke Romney | Dec 18, 2017 | Gift Ideas, Holidays, Practical Tips
Every now and then I run across a product and immediately think, “Why didn’t I think of that!?” (sqeezable baby food, anyone?) Well, this happened again when I discovered The Tough Tie. As a mom of four boys, I don’t do fragile or careful any...
