| Greetings! |
 I guess Paul Revere didn't really shout "The British are coming!" -- as the whole idea of that mission was to deliver the alert in secrecy, but I can assure you that on college campuses and at schools throughout the land, teachers and administrators are now shouting "The students are coming!"
This month's parenting article is about the one constant in the month of August, transitions. Sometimes we know they are coming, and at other times they catch us by surprise, but whichever the case, August is often a month that presents parenting challenges around significant changes that are occuring with the arrival of a new school year.
So if they haven't quite yet arrived in your family....
"The transitions are coming!"
"The transitions are coming!" |
| Parenting through Transitions |
 I often think of August as the month where you struggle to both stay still and move forward; in one breath holding on to the long days of summer and in another breath anticipating the parenting responsibilities of the coming year. August is a month abundant with family transitions -- children heading to college, a child or two back from summer camp, preparations for coordinating parenting responsibilities, changed people and people changing.
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When communicating with our children we often forget that we can choose how quickly we respond or react to a particular behavior or attitude. 
