New Study Shows Spanking is Not Child’s Play For the last few decades the debate about whether or not parents should utilize corporal punishment such as spanking has heated up over the emotional implications that it can bring. An intriguing new scientific report that has just been released indicates that not only are there emotional [...]
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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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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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Ways to Develop Your Son’s Emotional Health Snips and snails and puppy dog tails might have been how I once envisioned boys as I ran from them on the playground and dreaded standing next to one particularly rude young man in Super Choir. That was when I was 9 years old. Perhaps it was a [...]
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Why Some Say Our Kids Shouldn’t Have Best Friends Bullying is bad. It seeps into the souls of children and can slowly chip away at their confidence, self-worth, and feeling of belonging in the world. Loneliness is generally not a comforting emotion, and being excluded from relationships with peers is a challenging and sad experience [...]
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Children who are able to tell tales and verbally share stories with others are doing more than practicing their speaking skills. Storytelling is an intricate combination of vocabulary, inflection, emotions, concepts of time, and social awareness. In yesterday’s post I described the value and importance of storytelling when it comes to adults sharing tales with [...]
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5 Tips for Raising Kind Kids Lessons about kindness and friendship can come in many forms, and teaching our children to pay it forward and understand the importance of the golden rule is one of the most important things we can do for our kids. Raising kind and conscientious children is deeply rooted in raising [...]
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Where have all the manners gone? That was the sentiment I sadly heard recently as I listened to two elderly individuals speak about several children careening around the local fairgrounds, oblivious to others around them. It’s not the first time I’ve heard adults question the apparent lack of consideration by children, and the sentiment always [...]
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This video outlines what I REALLY think about John Gottman’s book, Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child. His book changed my life as a parent, I firmly believe that my children will lead significantly happier lives because I read this book and applied it’s techniques on my children.
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I had a very interesting incident with our three year old son and one year old daughter yesterday. I thought sharing it with you might cause you to rethink, whether or not yelling at your child is as effective as you hope it is. . . . . Here’s what happened: Because our daughter isn’t [...]
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