by Ari Yares | Jul 16, 2019 | Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits
It can be rough having those difficult conversations with our kids. We often start with the assumption that they will open up right away with us about all they know about complicated topics like sex, divorce, or drugs. But our approach, particularly how we ask the...
by Ari Yares | Mar 12, 2019 | Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits
Planning and cooking dinner for a family can be stressful, particularly when your kids are spectators and not participants. Here are some simple ways to pull them into the process. Share this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter...
by Ari Yares | Jan 23, 2019 | The Innovative Dad Blog
Most of us at one time or another have announced to a group that we’re just playing the devil’s advocate. What we mean, of course, is that we are taking on a line of negative questioning designed to help test the strength of an idea. The origin of the devil’s advocate...
by Ari Yares | Dec 31, 2018 | The Innovative Dad Blog
Looking back at 2018 as a parent, is there something that you had wished you did a little different? Is there a parenting strategy or skill that you wished that you had used a little bit more? Or a conversation that you wished you had with your child? The change of...
by Ari Yares | Dec 19, 2018 | The Innovative Dad Blog
Nobel prize-winning economist Richard Thaler has described an interesting event early in his career revolving around a bowl of cashews and the insight that it provided. At a dinner party one evening in his home, Thaler had placed a bowl of cashews on the table while...
