Dear Parents,

We are raising children during challenging times. Fear-based living, a technology-saturated world, and over-the-top expectations are taking a toll on children and parents. Over the past twenty-nine years, I have been a teacher, a mental health counselor, a parent educator, a school counselor, and most importantly, a mom. The changes I have seen in parenting are remarkable and can feel overwhelming. The good news, there is help.

Our reactions matter. We must learn why we react the way that we do, how our reactions affect our children, and the changes we can make to raise confident, secure, responsible, respectful, hardworking, emotionally healthy children. Join me and my community of parents as I share with you strategies and tools to help you parent with confidence.

With love,

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The Parenting Backpack: Strategies and Tools to Help You Parent with Confidence

In Susie’s new book, she shares with you the strategies and tools to help you parent with confidence. Join Susie's parenting community today and get notified when her book, The Parenting Backpack, launches!

"A cleareyed, compassionate blueprint for parents of all styles to improve their game."

—Kirkus Reviews

"Encouraging, pragmatic, and always clear and honest, The Parenting Backpack should lighten parents’ load.”

—BookLife Reviews

How Fear Affects Parenting: Moving From Fear to Empowerment

Whether perceived or real, we are parenting during a time that feels very fearful. When we parent from fear, we react in ways that are not helpful for our children. Learning to move from fear to empowerment is the key to raising confident and secure adults.

If you are interested in having Susie speak to your group on How Fear Affects Parenting, click-here.

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The Safety Net & The Compass

"It's not about raising perfect children. It's about how we react to our imperfect ones."

The two things our children need to internalize confidence and security are a safety net and a compass. It is giving our children the love and nurture need, as well as structure, boundaries, and rules. They need both.

Our children are going to make mistakes, deal with disappointments, and be faced with failures. How we react to them in those moments is what will make the difference.

To learn more about the safety net, the compass, and how to react to your children when they need you the most, buy The Parenting Backpack today!

 

DiddleDots: Tips to Ease the Craziness of Parenting

Once a first-grade teacher to 25+ children, Susie could not understand how being the mom to her three young children could be so challenging. Susie soon realized that she could use her teaching techniques to manage her small classroom of three. With time, practice, and love she created an environment that, while still a little crazy, was much more manageable. The lessons she learned inspired DiddleDots.

DiddleDots is filled with 100 tips to ease the craziness of parenting. Raising children today is challenging; instant gratification, high expectations, and technology overload can all feel overwhelming. These Dots will give you tools to begin thinking about how you parent and how you want to parent. Learn to organize your home, teach your children what you expect, understand your children and their feelings and instill your values. Click below to buy DiddleDots today.

 

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TODAY Parenting Team

Since 2105, Susie has been a member of the TODAY Parenting Team. As a top contributor, she has had over 1.3 million readers.

Click below to see Susie's TODAY Parenting Team articles.

10 Essential Tips on Positive Parenting with JTI

Susie sat down with JTI to discuss her new book, The Parenting Backpack. They talked everything parenting: boundaries, consequences, bullying, anger, and so much more. Click below and enjoy!

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Susie's Articles

Helping Our Children Feel Secure

Any tragedy that affects children feels out-of-control, scary, and hopeless. Sadly, we have been here way too many times. We want to take all the pain and fear away, but…

Living Wide Alive

In 2006, Gayle King began hosting The Gayle King Show on Oprah’s XM Channel 156. Like many during that time, I was a huge Oprah fan. I watched her shows,…

10 Essential Tips on Positive Parenting with JTI

Such a fun day talking with the girls at Just Try It about everything parenting. Their subscribers asked the questions, and we sat down and answered all of them. Enjoy!