And How Can My Child Get Some of That? There are many gifts we would love to be able to give our children, but self-esteem is one of those we can’t just wrap up with a bow and hand over to them. We have to create environments where their self-esteem can grow and flourish. I [...]
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Teaching Kids to Make Good Decisions Decisions, decisions. As adults we can weigh the odds and use our years of experiences and (hopefully) levels of maturity to make the best decisions possible, whether it is which job to pursue or which book to read. However, our kids don’t necessarily have those years of experiences or [...]
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I never knew I wanted to be a stay-at-home mom until I became a mom. My daughter was 2 when I graduated from college and was offered what might have been considered a dream job, but for so many reasons, I turned it down and made the move to become a full-time stay-at-home mother. I [...]
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Would you get a job or move across the world without a plan? Probably not. There would be résumés to prepare and job hours to consider, or language barriers and cultural changes with which to deal. However, all too often parents find themselves without a plan for one of the most important jobs a person [...]
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Without an over-protective-parent-ninja approach Yesterday I wrote about the risk factors our kids face when it comes to substance abuse, and how drugs don’t care if our kids are on the honor roll or are star baseball players, and today I share some of the ways that parents can teach themselves about drug abuse and give [...]
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Keeping Our Kids Safe I grew up in the era where just say no was the policy response taught to children about drug use, and I grew up in a culture and community where a “druggie” was considered the guy who skipped classes to smoke a cigarette across the street. Now I am raising children [...]
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What are the worst things I have ever heard my children say? Anything that sounds like me in a bad parenting moment – the echoes of my own words. That impatient tone they get when frustrated with each other or the refusal to share a toy because “last time you lost mine”, I know somewhere [...]
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Recharge and Renew Yourself Parenting is tiring, and is sometimes absolutely exhausting – especially if you are trying hard enough. One of the biggest dangers of overscheduled parents is that the exhaustion can turn into a collapse of everything you have been working so hard to teach, share with, and learn from your children. This [...]
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The Characteristics of Parenting for Success When you hear the word success, does you mind immediately go to money, status, and material items? The cheers from my old high school ring in my ears: S-U-C-C-E-S-S, That’s the way we spell success! Great – so we know how to spell it, but can we achieve it [...]
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Why Understanding the Need to Both Like and Love Your Child Is Crucial to Raising Healthy Families Browsing through the stacks at the library recently my eyes caught the title of a book. Liking the Child You Love, by Jeffrey Bernstein, sat resting on the shelf, beckoning to me. Fortunately I haven’t hit a wall [...]
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