I started an experiment a couple weeks ago: whenever one of my kids starts randomly complaining to me, I am randomly making gratitude statements. Just spewing them out. I'm grateful this! I'm grateful that! I become like a gratitude sprinkler. So yesterday my daughter was complaining about an [...]Continue Reading
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Five Power Words To Make Your Kids Confident
As a children grow, it's often their parents who form and shape their self-confidence. As your child learned to walk, you were probably there on the sidelines offering encouragement and comfort when they fell. By way of perseverance, your child learned the skill after many attempts. Children learn [...]Continue Reading
Parenting Secret Mission: Rediscovering Respect
Your mission this month will strengthen the foundations of good communication in your family and lead to more responsible, respectful kids. You mission: Rediscover respect. Why Rediscover Respect? Respect is something we tend to understand in it's absence - noticing when someone has [...]Continue Reading
All Kids Need to Believe This About Themselves – Superkids Manifesto
Join the Superkids Movement with Me! Can you imagine (or perhaps remember) spending your entire childhood misunderstood and constantly being called things like "picky" "difficult" "messy" or "stubborn"? Or maybe you have a child who could easily fall into one of these labels. I know I do. What [...]Continue Reading
Using Specific Language to Get Kids to Listen
When we say "Get Kids to Listen" usually what we mean is: I want my kids to follow my directions. One of the tricks to this though, is learning to give directions that kids can follow successfully. We were staying at a hotel with a pool when I got a great reminder of how NOT to get my kids to [...]Continue Reading
Just ignore him – sometimes we need to pause before we speak
When I read this story I knew I wanted to share it with more people. This mom's perceptive look at the habits we have in our speech illustrates the value of intentionally adding more positive phrases to say to kids to our repertoire. As she says below - this is not a teacher trying to be negative, [...]Continue Reading
