Andy Smithson

true parenting

truparenting

TRU Parenting

A short poem and tribute to Moms on this Mother's Day. Happy Mother's Day. See the full article text at http://truparenting.net/mom-job-faint-heart-happy-mothers-day/


TRU Parenting Audio: Ep 1 "Mom" is No Job for the Faint of Heart: Happy Mother's Day!

Learn 3 essential elements of effective communication with our children or anyone for that matter.

TRU Parenting Audio: Ep 2 Mean What You Say and Say What You Mean

Even superheros need help. This article shares three steps and actions mom or dad can take to enlist the help you need and build your superparent team.

TRU Parenting Audio: Ep 3 Even Super Mom And Dad Need Help Sometimes

A list of 17 fun spring and summer activities to do with your children that will build and strengthen you relationship with your child without costing you a lot of money. www.truparenting.net

TRU Parenting Audio: Ep 4: 17 Spring And Summer Activities

Simple greetings and first impressions can have a powerful effect on perceptions and how people react to us. This article shares 3 simple ways to improve our greetings to positively influence our interactions and relationships with our kids. 

TRU Parenting Audio: Ep 5 Create Better Days

Learn and be inspired to put the 4 essential elements of conquering any goal or obstacle to work in your personal life and your family life. 

Tru Parenting Audio: Ep 6 The 4 Part Formula for Conquering Any Goal or Obstacle

We are all busy parents and wish all the time that we had a few more hours in the day. Would you like more energy, more insight, more productivity and to just feel better physically and emotionally? Learn one simple routine that has the power to improve each of these things.

TRU Parenting Audio Ep 9 One Routine that Can Change Your Life

Sometimes kids lie. Parents struggle with their kids lying and wonder what to do. In this article, you'll find specific ways to deal with all kinds of lies and promote healthy cycles of honesty and trust.

TRU Parenting Audio Ep 14 What To Do When Kids Lie

Do you ever feel down? Do you ever struggle with parenthood? If so, join the club. All parents feel this way at times. We often hope and wish these feelings would change and we would have the confidence and happiness we want. This article provides a principle and skill that can help us get there. Confidence and happiness often require that we "act as if" we are confident and happy and then come these feeling rather than the other way around. 

TRU Parenting Audio Ep 19 The Secret To Creating The Parental Confidence And Happiness You Want

Do you want to have a more peaceful home? Do you want to stop yelling and be more calm and cool. This article gives 15 amazing articles that will give you the tools you need to stop yelling and improve the feeling in your home and family relationship for good.

TRU Parenting Audio Ep 25 15 Awesome Articles To Help You Stop Yelling And Keep Your Cool

4 proactive ways to train yourself to think first & have greater emotionally fitness. Think first, Feel, then Act (TFA) rather than, Feel, Act, Think (FAT)

TRU Parenting Audio Ep 55 Are You A FAT Parent

Andy Smithson, LCSW from TRU Parenting inspires and helps parents, not only improve kids' behavior, but build powerful cycles of continuous growth and happiness in themselves, with their children and in their families as a whole through the TRU principles of Teaching, Relationship and Upgrading Yourself: All in 15 minutes or less. As a husband, father of 4 kids, counselor and blogger, Andy knows how busy parenting life can be and seeks to deliver inspiring stories and practical tips that will help you and your child in every aspect of your life together with a podcast that fits your busy schedule. Find each of Andy's original written articles at www.truparenting.net. 