by Sandi Schwartz | Jun 24, 2013 | Inspiration, Nuggets of Wisdom, Young Children
To be a parent is to taste the agony and ecstasy of being human. It is more complicated than many of us thought it would be ~ Especially when you have a challenging child. Parenting can reduce successful men and women into a stressful state of confusion. Adults who...
by Sandi Schwartz | Jan 31, 2011 | Nuggets of Wisdom, Young Children
I used to think that a good mother was supposed to worry. After all, how can you love your children and not worry about them? My mother worried about me—all of the time. In fact, I grew up equating love with worry. I have even accused my husband at times of not...
by Sandi Schwartz | Jan 29, 2011 | Nuggets of Wisdom, Young Children
Each human being comes into life hard wired with his/her own unique blueprint. It is the intricacies of this design that determine the way we perceive and interact with the world. When parents experience life through a blueprint that makes it easy for them to...
by Sandi Schwartz | Jan 28, 2011 | Inspiration, Nuggets of Wisdom, Young Children
It just comes with parenting! It seems so easy to notice when our kids are behaving in ways that need improvement. While there are many things over which we have no control, the following are ten key elements that set the tone for positive behavior. Notice...
by Sandi Schwartz | Jan 26, 2011 | Nuggets of Wisdom, Young Children
Recently I was presenting a parenting seminar when a dad asked for help understanding his three year old daughter’s behavior at breakfast that morning. This is the way he described what happened: “…My daughter was sitting on my lap, eating her cereal, when I...
by Sandi Schwartz | Jan 19, 2011 | Inspiration, Nuggets of Wisdom, Young Children
Growing up as a child in New York, I learned that there were four distinct seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter. While there were variations during the year, kids could pretty much depend on flowers blooming in the spring, taking trips to the beach in the...
