Tools to Build your Family

Recently, I posted my first video of my new video series, "Tools to Build your Family."

The first in the series is the key tool, "Be Consistent." Many of the moms and dads I've interviewed stated this was the wisdom they learned when their children were young.

I have so much to say! With all the research done in areas of behavior, time management, decision-making, etc. to help parents, it will be easy to make short videos of helpful advice.

The series will complement the 7 small books, only 59 pages each, I've written to reach today's parents and grandparents raising children.

So check it out, subscribe, sign on to Google to leave a comment. Let me know what you think. We all have wisdom to share to make parenting easier.

For my book series, Single Parent Wisdom, I asked over 50 single parents with children now grown to reflect on what worked and what didn't while raising their children. Compiling their answers and adding mine, I found 7 areas of advice recurring from their answers:

1. Be Consistent.
2. Be Patient & Loving.
3. Time is Short.
4. Be Age-Appropriate.
5. Reduce the Chaos.
6. Be a Role Model.
7. Live in the Present.
   

I list these at the beginning of each of the 16 books, starting with "25 Ways to Encourage Good Behavior."

Introducing Single Parent Wisdom

Wow. Setting up this blog is easier than it looks. I can't say that for parenting, though -- especially single parenting. This blog will be used to discuss the many facets of parenting and a few more about the world of single parenting. I ask that you bare with me as some day's I will probably write a lot and some days, nothing at all.

Hopefully, there will be much give and take between others. I like sharing of ideas and viewpoints. To begin: I was a single parent for 11 years of my 3 children. After they became adults, I started writing about the experience seeking answers to the questions and problems I faced as a young single parent. Now that I'm older, I believe young people need to listen to those who have gone before them with similar experience. We have much to teach each other and can make parenting easier. You do not have to go it alone.