Parenting

By Melissa Stefanec  |  MelissaStefanec@yahoo.com   There is a lot of advice available to help parents deal with big feelings from their little people.

By Melissa Stefanec  |  MelissaStefanec@yahoo.com   I think there is a lot to be said for modern parenting. So many of us are working

By Melissa Stefanec  |  MelissaStefanec@yahoo.com   Summer is almost here. For the health of our kids, some people think screens should be banished until

By Melissa Stefanec  |  MelissaStefanec@yahoo.com   There are a lot of things our kids are not an authority on. They aren’t authorities on finances,

By Melissa Stefanec  |  MelissaStefanec@yahoo.com   Most parents do too much for their kids. Sometimes, I’m one of those parents. There are days when

By Melissa Stefanec  |  MelissaStefanec@yahoo.com Most parents think about whether or not their approach to child-rearing is effective. But, given the circumstances of our

By Melissa Stefanec  |  MelissaStefanec@yahoo.com   I’m one of those Xennial parents, one born in the early 1980s who was heavily influenced by Gen-X

By Melissa Stefanec  |  MelissaStefanec@yahoo.com   2026 is upon us. We parents have some heavy lifting to do. This is the year we should be

The holidays can leave some of us resenting the ‘ho, ho, ho’ and instead suppressing the urge to scream ‘no, no, no’ By Melissa

By Melissa Stefanec  |  MelissaStefanec@yahoo.com   Unless you live under a rock, at the bottom of an ocean, on a planet in a galaxy