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Barbara Harcavi
Parenting Coach - Couples Counselor - Family Mediator
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Brother's Love
Five ways to build a stronger sibling bond: 1. COOPERATIVE TASKS – Give them joint projects or assignments, like tidy up together, plan a...
Children are great Imitators
How much time are you spending on screens? How do you care about your body? Do you always say hello to your neighbors? How do you handle...
Don't make your Children's lives easy
Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy. Robert A. Heinlein We love our children so much, and we certainly want them to...
It's about the Relationships in a Family
So many parents ask me about the PRINCIPLES I work with…? Parental coaching is mostly about OUR DAILY LIVES as parents, and about THE...
Teaching Independence
ONE SIMPLE RULE : “Never do for a child what he can do for himself” (Rudolf Dreikurs) Do not feed a child that is able to eat on its own....
Are "Terrible Twos" that terrible?
What happens to my sweet little baby at age two?!?!? The professional term is “SEPARATION”…. But simply put it, at that age children...
Time Out?
Mommy / Daddy, when you put me in time-out I feel so lonely….. I feel alone in the whole world, because YOU are MY WORLD, and when you...
Sex Education
Smartphones, pornography and violence are unfortunately linked today…. By the end of third grade (age 8) 75% of the Israeli children have...
Help! My Child is Cursing!
4 steps to stop my child from swearing: Lets realize that even if its hideous (or terribly embarrassing or annoying), we have...
New Beginnings - Back to School
If your child is enrolling in a new gan, or to first grade, this is for you!!! I compiled 4 tips for “the big start”: 1. START COUNTING...
4 Mistakes when Potty Training
I decided to potty train my eldest son before I became a parenting coach. I thought: This shouldn’t be a big deal, everybody does it… I...
“Don't bother educating your Children...."
“Don't bother educating your children, in the end they will be like you. Educate yourself and be a model to them”. He is too fat, too...
Crime and Punishment
“Stop”!, “What was she thinking”?, “He deserves to be punished!”… Sometimes children just have to “learn the lesson”… But what “lesson”...
Why should we NOT force our Children to apologize?
We have all been in that situation - we see our child quarreling with another child about a toy, or any other issue, and suddenly our...
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