Childish behaviors can irritate adults, but there can be more than one way to interpret pesky attitudes or actions. Consider the flip side to a few behaviors with this fabulous infographic.
Building Bridges, Not Walls: Gentle Co-Parenting That Helps Teens Thrive After Divorce
Editor & Co-Author: Jennifer LytleCo-Author: Leslie Campos You’re navigating the wreckage of a marriage that once promised forever. In the middle of it all, there’s a teenager watching both of you closely. She’s trying to figure out her place and find solid ground in the midst of the ongoing change. This isn’t just about custody …
Children’s Literature
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 …
15 Effective Ways to Connect with Your Kids Without Lying While Still Avoiding Hot Potato Topics
Prioritize and preserve your connection with your children through genuine communication while avoiding developmentally inappropriate details.
Parenting Resources – The River & Arrow
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?
Analysis Paralysis or Acta non Verba
To act well is better than to say well. While words can feel good, words initiate, not culminate, good relationships.
5 Keys to Connect with Teens
Take-aways and practical tools for real world parenting. This seminar style meeting affords Q&A support for participants.
Decisions Decisions
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 …
Don’t Cry: The Parent Trap When Our Children Feel Lonely, Sad, or Bored
Joyful Journeys Counseling offers parent support including parent-child relationship education and co-parent workshops in Austin and the surround Central Texas area.
August 2024 Austin Fit Magazine Article
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 …
