Surviving Summer Vacation

Check out Jennifer Kolari’s tips for surviving summer vacation at Primacy Life. It’s full of good advice, so read the whole thing, but here are some of the keys:

1. Scale back your expectations
2. Stick to routines and rules
3. Plan your day
4. Take some downtime
5. Don’t forget to have fun!

The takeaway according to Alison Dunn in her editorial accompanying Jennifer’s interview:

“I’m going to … remember that this is a FAMILY vacation… I’m going to stop worrying about having the perfect vacation and focus on just having fun.”

"Connected Parenting advises us not just how to parent, but—far more important—who to be as parents. The therapeutic methods suggested by Jennifer Kolari are based not on simple-minded behavioural solutions, but on building warm, nurturing relationships with our children, with insight and compassion not only for their little flaws, but also for our own larger ones."
—Gabor Maté, M.D.

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