Giving logical consequences is easier said than done. So this week we talk about a specific example of giving a logical consequence during a challenging time: when your underage teen drives the car. Fireborn has 5 tips to help you provide your teen with a logical consequence that helps him learn how to make good decisions and to be a responsible, thriving adult.

Last week we talked about some general tips for discipline. And those general tips, like remaining calm and staying focused on why the behavior was bad and not giving the impression that you think the child is bad, are really good things that you need to do. The problem with that advice is that it’s so general and I like to be really specific so it’s easy for you to bring what you hear here into your real life. So today we are going to talk about a few different ways you can discipline your kids.

Working to make this enormous topic of discipline manageable, Fireborn continues its series on discipline by talking about the general rules (guidelines for parents) of discipline: Remain calm; Provide an explanation; Give a warning; The consequence needs to make sense and be fair; Follow through; Return to your warm relationship; and

Always focus on the behavior.

Discipline is a pretty overwhelming topic. It can also be pretty overwhelming when you are trying to discipline your kids and follow all of the advice! How do you provide logical consequences? How do you stop bad behavior? What's the deal with timeouts? What does effective discipline actually look like? There's a lot to think about and that can make discipline in the moment very hard! In a series on discipline, Fireborn will be breaking down this enormous topic - starting with "The Purpose of Discipline".

Usually we focus on keeping track of what we do have to do, but sometimes it can make life a lot easier if we also keep track of what we don't have to do - like No Homework Nights or a cancelled soccer practice. Help avoid some fights and frustration by adding a simple "Don't have to do this" to your planner!

Being a slow reader is frustrating! It stinks to have to spend so much more time than your peers just to read through and remember the same amount of information! While we can't make your child a speed reader over night, Fireborn does have 4 tips to help make reading go a bit faster and to help your child remember more of that information.

So often helping kids with homework feels more like nagging them to just sit down and do their homework. That stinks. It’s really no fun for parents or kids. So how do you shift from being the homework nag to your kid’s homework coach? Fireborn’s got 6 tips for you on how to stop being a homework nag so that homework becomes, dare we say it, potentially a pleasant, collaborative, relationship-building opportunity instead of an all out fight!

Being sick and pregnant this week, I'm realizing just how amazing parents are because they never get to be sick. So this episode is a tribute to all those parents out there who keep on going even when all they want to do is stay in bed and rest!

Whether your child is studying for middle school, high school, or graduate school standardized tests, Fireborn's got 3 tips to make reading comprehension easier.

Finding the right after-school activity can be hard. What if your kid isn’t doing enough extracurriculars? What if she’s doing too many? Does he really need to be doing any at all if he doesn’t want to? In this episode, we talk a bit about why after-school activities are great for your kids, how to figure out if your kid is doing too many, and what to do if your kid isn’t interested in them at all.