Managing Stress With Quality Literature You know that feeling after a long day at work when you have given in to the idea of fast food, and you get home to pass out everyone’s selected meal choices, but someone didn’t get what they ordered? Panic. Frustration. Anger. Self-righteous vows to cancel that shop F O …
Prioritize and preserve your connection with your children through genuine communication while avoiding developmentally inappropriate details.
Real parenting resources for real parents. Parenting well can be stressful in an increasingly chaotic world. How do we maintain wellness while managing all that’s demanding our attention? Is there a way to support the development of good people without turning our children into the center of a tiny bound to collapse in on itself world?
To act well is better than to say well. While words can feel good, words initiate, not culminate, good relationships.
Take-aways and practical tools for real world parenting. This seminar style meeting affords Q&A support for participants.
Will you help pick the book cover for my soon-to-be published best-seller? Voting is open until 2/27/25. I know it’s short, but these things have a long run before they are hot off the press. Please let us know your favorite! Joyful Journeys Counseling was opened to support Central Texans with professional mental health care …
Joyful Journeys Counseling offers parent support including parent-child relationship education and co-parent workshops in Austin and the surround Central Texas area.
Parenting Hacks: Keeping Your Kids’ Schedule Cool When it Heats Up Outside …[R]emember your goal as a parent is to produce [ ] independent, capable human[s who can productively function] in[ ] the world. Does Your Schedule Rule Over Rest? Joyful Journeys Counseling Founder, Jennifer Lytle, shares three considerations when scheduling activities for kiddos. Be …
Conflict happens. How you reconnect after a miscommunication is key to maintaining a positive relationship with teens. Find four steps
More than a buzzword, a growth mindset is a positive, can-do frame of reference. One who operates with this perspective does not get derailed from missteps, setbacks, or unexpected changes. An individual with a growth mindset might say (or think) something like, “I’m not sure exactly how to do this, but I can find out how.”