The Orange Rhino Challenge®: a 4 week Journey to Start Yelling Less (starts...
The Orange Rhino Challenge to Start Yelling Less begins Thursday, January 18th! I know that many people set the New Year’s Resolution to Stop Yelling at their kids…I sooo get this. I know how awful it...
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Learning to Re-Charge So I Don’t Charge (by Yelling)
I sat down at the kitchen table and mumbled, “Finally, sitting down for the first time today.” And then I part laughed, part sighed to myself. This wasn’t the first time I was sitting down. I sat in...
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The Orange Rhino Charges Towards the Future
Hi! As you know, I have been evolving. As I learned to yell less, I learned that the real secret was making sure that I was in a good place. And as I learned to be in a good place, I learned that my...
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Gaining Young Adults, Losing some Family Traditions: It’s Hard
Today is oddly tough for me. It marks the beginning of the end of many traditions. I shouldn’t say end. I should say it marks the beginning of many changes. But sometimes changes feel like the end,...
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How I Stayed Motivated When I Wanted to Quit
“Are we there yet?” Except it wasn’t my kids saying it, it was me thinking it, which believe it or not, is just as exhausting to hear! Why? Because the real question I was asking, “Am I there yet? Am I...
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Will My Teens Turn to Me When “Lost?” I Hope So.
*Tissue warning* Ah, the good ‘ole “Lost and Found” basket at schools, at homes, at wherever. I, of course, naturally thought about this basket soon after I thought about myself being “Lost and Found.”...
View ArticleI’m Not Looking Forwards to Mother’s Day
Full disclosure. I am not looking forward to Mother’s Day. It is a complicated day for many and not the Hallmark holiday that is offered. To all those feeling this way, I see you, I feel the pain. I...
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A Moment of Truth for Mac (and us)
Dearest Orange Rhinos, Thank you so much for your loving comments, posts and emails a few weeks back when I shared about Mac’s health situation. My sincerest apologies for not replying until now, and...
View ArticleHow to Not Yell At Teenagers – According to My Teen
“Mom, why do you look like you are about to scream and lose your…?” my teen lovingly and genuinely asked. “Do you really want to know?” I asked back. “Not really, no, but…ok, fine. Go ahead. What’s...
View ArticleLoving Myself More…So That I Yell Less in 2023
This time of year is hard for me and I can just be out right grumpy. Spending holidays divorced are really hard and to boot, my wedding anniversary is days away. I am not really in the...
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Yelling Less is Possible! 30-Day Challenge Starts January 18, 2023
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1st Day Back as The Orange Rhino!
Hello everyone! Wow, it feels surreal to be sitting at a desk, typing a blog post again after almost three years (but really, closer to what, seven?) I have so much to say, to write, to explain, to...
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Quick New Year’s Pep Talk!
Happy New Year Orange Rhinos! My four stayed up until midnight for the first time ever, well and I did for the first time in years, so yeah…today is going to be a LOOOOOONG day To boot, we did Just...
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Lessons from the Number Eight
My alarm went off this morning and so I promptly…rolled over and went back to sleep because, isn’t that what one does when an alarm goes off?! It went off again, but this time my phone said “It is...
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4 Jedi Mind Tricks to Help You Yell Less
Our household (apparently like most of the world!) has recently been all about the new Star Wars movie, “The Force Awakens.” My five boys (if you include my husband and I most certainly need to in this...
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The Thanksgiving I Ruined by Yelling at my Kids
Unfortunately, before I started my original Orange Rhino Challenge to go 365 days straight without yelling at my four boys (then ages 5 and under), the “Not-So-Great” Thanksgiving of 2010 happened. Oh,...
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“Yell Less, Love More” Book Club Starts November 1st!
I wrote the following kind of sarcastic, kind of true, sentence in my head back in July. Or was it June? Perhaps even as early as May? “My name is The Orange Rhino and I wrote a book about how to stop...
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2 Lessons About Yelling the Maine Diner Debacle Can Teach Us
Today I read the now viral article about how the owner of a diner in Maine yelled at a customer, a customer who happened to be a two-year-old child. Supposedly, the child was carrying on and on and the...
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A Moment of Truth for Mac (and us)
Dearest Orange Rhinos, Thank you so much for your loving comments, posts and emails a few weeks back when I shared about Mac’s health situation. My sincerest apologies for not replying until now, and...
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