by Ari Yares | May 3, 2018 | Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits
Making friends and learning how to act in a friendship is an incredibly important part of childhood. Most of the time, though, we only talk to kids about friends when there is a problem and we never share about our own friendships? What if we did? Share this:Click to...
by Ari Yares | May 2, 2018 | The Innovative Dad Blog
I watched my kids get incredibly impatient the other day while waiting for a video to load on the TV. The message that the video was “loading” just stayed there and the longer that the video took to show up, the more irritated the kids got. My wife and I don’t react...
by Ari Yares | Mar 20, 2018 | The Innovative Dad Blog, Video
The Parkland school shooting has put lockdown drills and active shooter planning at schools into the limelight. Planning for emergencies is important, but our kids can also find them anxiety provoking. Watch this Facebook Live video about how to talk to our kids about...
by Ari Yares | Feb 16, 2018 | Video
Are kids today more or less stressed than their parents were growing up? Maybe. A better question might be what do we as parents do about helping our kids manage stress? Watch this episode of the Innovative Dad to learn more about the causes of stress and what we as...
by Ari Yares | Jan 4, 2018 | The Innovative Dad Blog
When I was working as a school psychologist in the schools, I would frequently stop the students that I was working with to ask them how they were doing. I knew that I was risking falling into a classic psychologist cliche (“Now, tell me how you are feeling.”), but,...
