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Advertisements Targeting Children: Are They All Bad?

Advertisements Targeting Children: Are They All Bad?

I just found this video below and couldn’t help but re-post it for you to see. It’s called “Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood” and seeks to blame advertising for many of the problems that children in our society are showing today. And if you take the argument all by itself, then maybe they’re right.  [...]

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What’s Your Parenting Style

What’s Your Parenting Style

This Detailed Graphic Provides Great Statistics On How Different Parenting Styles Will Affect Your Children In the Future.

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Child Indoctrination: The Goal Of Your Child’s School?

Child Indoctrination: The Goal Of Your Child’s School?

Did you ever wonder as a child how silly it was that all the grownups spent a lot of time talking about money, yet you never talked about how to manage it in school? Did you ever find it odd in college that the professor who taught business had never actually ran one? Ever wonder [...]

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How To Stop Bullying

How To Stop Bullying

  I just had to re-post this video after I saw it, because it reflects how all children should handle a bully. I laugh whenever I see these anti-bullying campaigns people try to get me to donate money for.  They try to raise awareness and show kids how to notify a teacher… blah… blah… blah.  [...]

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Socialization Secrets From A Professional Animal Trainer

Socialization Secrets From A Professional Animal Trainer

It’s a very interesting thing to be a parent with an extensive animal training background.  Our children just aren’t that much different when it comes to teaching and training them… as much as that pains me to say, and probably pains you to hear. Take social issues for example. There are LOTS of animals that [...]

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Getting $100,000 to NOT go to College

Getting $100,000 to NOT go to College

I saw this very interesting, and refreshing, story on TheBlaze.com today about a Tech mogul who is paying people $100,000 to pursue their passions instead of going to college. For me, this is a FAR better use of money then a college degree could ever be – directly paying someone to pursue their dreams. As [...]

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I Fell For The Potty Training BS

I Fell For The Potty Training BS

Yep, you heard me right, I fell for the potty training B.S.  But not in the way you were probably thinking… As I write this my son is 2 years 10 months of age, and last week he became officially potty trained; waking up in the middle of the night to go potty, holding it [...]

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The Skill High School Grads Should Master… Or Forever Be Manipulated

The Skill High School Grads Should Master… Or Forever Be Manipulated

I read a very entertaining post that I thought contained some of the best advice I’d ever heard for a student just graduating from high school. The post was called, “Congratulations, Now Stop Being A Wuss“.  It made a great argument for what a just-graduated high school student should focus on learning.   The lesson from this [...]

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How To Predict If Your Kid Will Be Successful

How To Predict If Your Kid Will Be Successful

In this video, John Gottman, the author of Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child talks about how to predict how successful your child will become as an adult. Very interesting stuff.

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The 4 Obstacles Blocking Children From Their Goals

The 4 Obstacles Blocking Children From Their Goals

In this video I outline the 4 obstacles your child will have to overcome if they are to ever become successful. After you watch the video, please take part in my challenge to you at the end, I think it could make a dramatic impact on your child’s life if you’ll take it. Click here [...]

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