(Editor’s note: please welcome Vanessa with a guest post introducing her new book. Thanks, Vanessa!) By Vanessa Van Petten, creator of RadicalParenting.com and author of the parenting book, “Do I Get My Allowance Before or After I’m Grounded?” When I was 16 I thought it was my Dad’s goal in life to make me miserable. [...]

(Editor’s note: please welcome Davian with an important article for parents of strong-willed children. Thanks, Davian!) Dealing with strong-willed children can sometimes be difficult. A defiant child has ideas of its own and hardly ever yields in to authority. Rebellion, stubbornness and the desire to step over authority will interfere with the child’s upbringing. The [...]

My weekly post at GNMParents is about how the boys tend to think alike. And act alike. And do the same things over and over again. Sometimes it’s funny, other time’s it’s frustrating. There are already some great comments on the post; I’ve been humbled by one and there are two other suggestions that are [...]