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Fun with the Kids: Summer Strategies for Parents

When parents apply a few simple all-purpose tips for creating summer fun with the kids, opportunity happens. You can increase quality time, expand connections with your children, and make summer into more fun for all. Give these simple summer strategies a try! 1. Put together an arts and crafts group for the kids. Simple ideas [...]

By Bette Freedson|2014-08-05T20:53:49+00:00August 5th, 2014|Benefits of friendships, Building resilience in kids, Children, Life Lessons, Loving life, Mothers, Parenting, Parenting adolescents, Raising Your Children, Seasonal parenting, Solving Problems, Strategies for fun with the kids, Surviving Parenting, The benefit of parents' attention, Wise parenting|

Moms– Thrive in Connection and See Parenting Improve!

Married, partnered or single, moms are working hard in the home, outside of the home, and usually both! Often moms are so busy and stressed, that they may feel alone or isolated. Have you ever experienced thoughts like these or the feelings that go with them? “I’m going stir crazy just home alone all day [...]

By Bette Freedson|2016-12-02T22:22:03+00:00July 11th, 2014|Beating the Blues and Burnout, Benefits of friendships, Children, Emotional Management, Life Lessons, Loving life, Managing Stress, Parenting, Parenting Solutions for Single Moms, Raising Your Children, Single Mothers, Solving Problems, Surviving Parenting, Wise parenting, Women's Issues|

"This is a fine book full of support for single parents who have to face the job  of raising children alone, and having to share them with another caregiver  when they return to work. I would advise all single mothers to read it."

T. Berry Brazelton, M.D.,  Professor of Pediatrics Emeritus at Harvard Medical School

"The responsibilities of single mothers can be daunting. "Soul Mothers’ Wisdom" provides inspiring counsel to help them flourish. The stories and insights provide unique resources that will foster a stronger sense of self and more fluid access to inner resources."

Jeffrey K. Zeig, Ph.D., director, The Milton Erickson Foundation

"Bette Freedson provides lucid guidance in the form of a coherent, workable program  that shows the reader how to rob the boogey man of his power to scare, victimize  and stress women into believing that one person cannot do a two-person job."

Helen Adrienne, LCSW, BCD , author, On Fertile Ground: Healing Infertility