ScreamFree Basics

Temper Tantrums and Tirades? C'est Cool.
How a 17th century tutor helped me keep it together and how he can help you too.

Ask the Expert: Lazy Parents
Does "Focus on Ourselves" mean letting your kids remain out of control?

Basic Training
What lessons parents can learn from this teacher's mistakes.

Babies & Toddlers

Ask the Expert: The Terrible Twos
Taming Tantrums and Tirades

Ready...Set....Stall...
Why kids slow down when you need them to speed up.

Beating the Bulge without Creating a Battle
Beating Food Battles and Creating Healthy Kids

Leading Your Family

Projection Rejection
You will get what you look for in your kids.

I'm Sorry, Butt
When and how to apologize to your kids.

Moving Day
How to keep kids and grownups alike sane during times of tremendous stress.

Preschoolers

Temper Tantrums and Tirades? C'est Cool.
How a 17th century tutor helped me keep it together and how he can help you too.

Give Your Kids A Sporting Chance
Teaching sportsmanship to your children is not mere kid's play.

Ask the Expert: The Terrible Twos
Taming Tantrums and Tirades

Common Struggles

Taking No for an Answer
What happens when your child should tell you no?

Projection Rejection
You will get what you look for in your kids.

Give Your Kids A Sporting Chance
Teaching sportsmanship to your children is not mere kid's play.

School Aged Kids

Temper Tantrums and Tirades? C'est Cool.
How a 17th century tutor helped me keep it together and how he can help you too.

Give Your Kids A Sporting Chance
Teaching sportsmanship to your children is not mere kid's play.

Ask the Expert: Kids and Money Troubles
How to talk to kids when money is tight and stress is high.

All About School

It's Report Card Time
Why allowing your children experience victory and defeat on their own is the best kind of schooling you can give them.

Basic Training
What lessons parents can learn from this teacher's mistakes.

Ask the Expert: Parenting Kids with ADHD
A different take on ADHD that just may surprise you.

Tweens & Teens

A Clean Room
How to better your chances of creating a clean teen.

Ask the Expert: My Pre-Teen's Level of Privacy
The power of space to tweens and teens.

Ask the Expert: Is There Any Hope?
A mom wonders if things can ever change with her teenage daughter.

Single Parenting and Blended Family

Ask the Expert: How My Ex Treats Our Child
Co-parenting is one of the hardest things to do. Here Hal addresses a mother who is bearing the brunt of her daughter's anger towards her father.

Ask the Expert: A Stepmom Caught in the Middle
Just what kind of role should a step parent take when there's discord in the house?

Ask the Expert: What To Do If Your Child Says, "I Hate You!"
What this really means and how you can respond like the adult you need to be.

All Ages

Ask the Expert: How Much TV is Too Much?
Information overload can cause confusion with many parents. Here, Hal helps you make the best decisions based on what's right for you.

Ask the Expert: Lazy Parents
Does "Focus on Ourselves" mean letting your kids remain out of control?

The Wrath of Mom
Can William Shatner inspire good parenting. Why....yes (long pause)..he can.

Holiday Survival

Summer, Suntans, and Structure
Structuring your summer for the sake of your sanity.

Long Live the King
His dream isn't much different from ours.

Resolution Revolution
One resolution you really can stick with.

Parenting Through Crisis

Ask the Expert: My Kid Has Tried Drugs!
The best way to respond when your fears are realized.

Ask the Expert: Kids and Money Troubles
How to talk to kids when money is tight and stress is high.

Just Trying to Survive
Helping kids through emotionally tough times requires tremendous strength on your part.

Parenting Kids with Special Needs

Ask the Expert: Reactive Attachment Disorder
How can ScreamFree help kids and parents struggling with this diagnosis?

Ask the Expert: Parenting Kids with ADHD
A different take on ADHD that just may surprise you.

Ask the Expert: Advice for AD/HD Parents Part II
How to deal with meltdowns when your child has AD/HD.