by Ari Yares | Jul 30, 2018 | Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits
Getting a meaningful conversation going at the dinner table can be a struggle. Too often, we ask the generic “How was your day?” and then get an equally generic answer (“Fine”) in return. If we want our dinner tables to be a place where we can...
by Ari Yares | Oct 3, 2019 | The Innovative Dad Blog
Just days into the new year this past January, my wife was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer. I can remember vividly sitting in the car with her trying to figure out what was happening next in our lives. We were lucky. We had friends who were oncologists who were...
by Ari Yares | Sep 10, 2019 | Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits
Having your kid talk back to you pushes all of our buttons and we tend not to respond well. Yet, our gut reaction to their behaviors doesn’t help us correct it or prevent it from happening again. Check out these strategies for minimizing back talk and dealing...
by Ari Yares | Nov 2, 2017 | The Innovative Dad Blog
My oldest recently discovered the following joke: “Pete and Re-Pete were in a boat. Pete fell in. Who was left in the boat?” The answer, of course, is Re-Pete and she immediately starts the joke all over again. Using the Repeat Back Repetition is an incredibly...
by Ari Yares | Jan 28, 2019 | Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits
One of the hardest lessons that I had to learn as a therapist was to embrace silence when a patient wasn’t speaking. I had a compulsion to fill the space which meant that I was distracting the patient from whatever they were about to tell me. As a parent,...
