by Julie Johnson | Apr 9, 2024 | Blog, Children, Coaching, Parenting
For many parents, there comes a time when you are caught in the middle of a sibling crossfire: Your little one bops his brother on the head when the bigger one takes his truck. At breakfast time, two siblings make a run for the red bowl. They get to the cabinet at the...
by Julie Johnson | Oct 1, 2019 | Children, Coaching, Toddlers
Two days after my son was born, his five-year old sister carefully and quietly carried his bouncy chair to a room in the back of the house that wasn’t used much. When I walked back into the living room and found him gone, she said, “He has gone to the baby dungeon,...
by Julie Johnson | Sep 24, 2019 | Children, Coaching, Toddlers
Although we parents might feel like we spend every moment with a new baby, our days are also filled with the work it takes to run a family. There is laundry to be done, meals to prepare, diapers to change, showers to slip into when we have a moment, and errands to run...
by Julie Johnson | Sep 17, 2019 | Blog, Children, Coaching, Toddlers
Sometimes children love to share. A child passes out a cupcake to each friend at a party, offers his baby sister the toy he knows she’ll love, or asks grandma to buy something for her sibling in addition to her own gift when they are at the toy store together....
by Julie Johnson | Sep 10, 2019 | Children, Coaching, Toddlers
When our children become paralyzed with fear, it’s hard to know how to help them! A father I know remembers seeing his son in this state during a family vacation at Lake George at the base of the Adirondack Mountains. His son, eight years old at the time, wanted to...
by Julie Johnson | Nov 21, 2014 | Coaching
What’s different about this approach? Unlike other approaches, Parenting by Connection emphasizes parent-to-parent listening tools to reduce the stress of parenting. When we can talk about what parenting is like with someone who will listen with warmth and...
