Family Life Stories

Top Secret Strategies for Negotiating with Your Kids

Top Secret Strategies for Negotiating with Your Kids

Excerpt from Parenting magazine article. While life often feels like an assembly line of yes-no's, a healthier approach may revolve less around imposing your will and more around a business-centric tactic: negotiating. What's that, you say? Doesn't negotiating mean...

Forging Strong Parent-Professional Partnerships

Decades of research show that when families and schools partner together, children are better positioned to reach their greatest potential as learners and active members of the school community. There’s simply no doubt that parental involvement is directly linked to...

Let’s Talk About Adolescent Mental Health

Let’s Talk About Adolescent Mental Health

HOST A PARENT/TEACHER/TEEN BOOK DISCUSSION Recognized expert on family relationships, Lynne Griffin will facilitate a discussion of her new novel Girl Sent Away using the companion guide Let’sTalk About It: Adolescent Mental Health. The guide includes conversation...

What is Crossover Fiction?

What is Crossover Fiction?

The magic pixie dust for how to reach lots and lots of readers may be elusive, but two things about book discoverability are indisputable: readers are always on the look out for good stories and writers are increasingly desperate to find their people. While the...

Girl Sent Away

Girl Sent Away

In Lynne Griffin's new novel, Girl Sent Away, she takes on a topic that's rarely discussed but which richly deserves our attention: the fear-based teenage boot camps that serve as a dark undercurrent to our domestic culture. In this book, Griffin explores that somber,...