Balancing Control With Maturity
Posted in Family, Parenting, Personal Development on Jan 6th, 2009
Self care is one of the hardest things for parents to do - mostly because of the ginormous pile of stuff that you have to do every day. Our team today will get you thinking about the importance of taking good care of your kid’s parents. The two first steps are to:
Reach a [...]
Posted in Family, Parenting, Spiritual Leadership, humor, raising children on Dec 23rd, 2008
Vicki and I were discussing this the other day in the car when we saw a billboard of John Schmidt, a local musician, who was lying on a piano bench playing the piano backwards and upside down. Too often as parents we squelch the creativity of our children by insisting that they do things the [...]
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Click on this link for a choice example of some of the adventures in parenting that we all treasure! Vicki received this from a friend.
Enjoy!
Posted in Family, Parenting, Personal Development on Dec 18th, 2008
Authenticity is something that our world is craving and moving more toward. Being real with your kids actually helps you to establish a loving relationship as well as maintaining authority with them. Too often, we get stuck in the “pretending” mode or try to fill some role. The real power in relationships [...]
I was hanging some Christmas lights on Saturday when a friend came by and hopped out of his truck. He hustled over to where I was standing on the ladder and rather urgently said, “Paul, we need your help – you and your boys – can you come help us?” Well, I’m generally willing to [...]
Posted in Family, Personal Development, Psychology, Spiritual Leadership, raising children, teaching children on Nov 25th, 2008
Today for the Parental Power call, the team discusses gratitude. Gratitude is one of the most powerful principles for protecting your paradigm, and teaching your kids appreciation. Dr. Jason also shares an historic quote from Abe Lincoln, who instituted the first Thanksgiving.
Posted in Family, Parenting, Psychology, raising children, teaching children on Nov 18th, 2008
In today’s Parental Power call, the team takes on the very basics of discipline, which has everything to do with learning. Reinforcement and punishment are defined as what will increase behavior versus what will decrease behavior respectively. Each of these has a positive and a negative form - this does not mean good [...]
Posted in Family, Spiritual Leadership, teaching children on Nov 11th, 2008
Traditions are an important way to create connection, belonging, security, identity, and positive sentiment in children. Our discussion today focuses on some of the benefits of traditions within the home. I also want to point out the resources of one of our callers today - Danielle has created www.extraordinarymommy.com where you will find [...]
Posted in Family, Parenting, raising children, teaching children on Oct 28th, 2008
Children don’t keep! In the pressures that we encounter just as a fact of life, it is easy to get pulled away into things that are important, but not nearly as important as the relationship. Keeping a perspective of what is most important can help to guide our decisions as parents. Protecting [...]
Posted in Family, Parenting, raising children, teaching children on Oct 21st, 2008
Often times we want to give our teens our coaching and expect them to value it as much as we do. As we learn to offer our suggestions and coaching on their time table, our time will be spent more effectively. Today’s call focuses on ways to help both parents and teens as they transition [...]
