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Encouraging Picky Eaters

Scenario: Tired after a long day at work, you pick up your child, head home and...

Parenting Lessons From My Dad’s Childhood

Last Father’s Day, I invited my dad, Herb Lewis, to look back over the decades and describe his...

Power Paths for Parenting

• “If you help clean the garage, I will give you 10 dollars!”
• “Avery, your roo...

• Gaining Cooperation From Your Extra-Challenging Child

  At the playground recently, I watched a mom try to convince her 6- or 7-year-old daughter to leav...

• How to Encourage Courage in Your Kids

  “Courage is about something magical that happens on the inside that helps us push through fear,...

• Advice for Parenting Introverted Children

  PEP Awarded $72,576 Grant from the Children’s Opportunity Fund of the Greater Washington Community Foundation

  KENSINGTON, MD (February 1, 2022) – PEP (the Parent Encouragement Program), a leading nonprofit...

• PEP Wins Multi-Year Contract to Provide its Award-Winning Parent Education Program to USAID Staff in Washington, D.C., and around the World.

  KENSINGTON, MD (May 11, 2020) – PEP (the Parent Encouragement Program), a leading non-profit&nb...

• “Choose your consequences more wisely — and get the kid some help”

  “Dear Carolyn: My son, 11, has been acting up in school: not doing his homework, talking du...

• PEP leaders on Fox News Show “Mommy Confidential”

  Segments including sexting and spanking, respectively.

  View the recording from the