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A Much Better Way To Motivate
As we said recently, it is true that by withholding praise or pride, you may succeed in creating…
You’re Not Trying To Raise Well-Behaved Kids
We have so many things we need to do as parents. There’s the logistics of it. The survival…
Learning is Frustrating
Being a kid is tough. It’s tough because they’re learning—often by painful trial and error—an endless number of…
Tackle This First
They’re not listening. They’re acting crazy. They’re fighting with their siblings constantly. You can feel them drifting in…
This Is The First Step
It’s pretty remarkable. In a time when most women weren’t expected to be educated, let alone allowed to…
You Have To See What’s Really Going On
Yes, they hit their sister. Yes, they just got their first ‘F’ on their report card. Yes, they…
This is The Cure
It doesn’t matter who you are now. It doesn’t matter who you were then. It doesn’t matter if…
Easy Like Sunday Morning
Why is your house so stressful? Why is everything such a fight? It doesn’t need to be. Sure,…
This is The Cure
It doesn’t matter who you are now. It doesn’t matter who you were then. It doesn’t matter if you’re a billionaire, if you command armies…
Easy Like Sunday Morning
Why is your house so stressful? Why is everything such a fight? It doesn’t need to be. Sure, school is important. Rules and respect and…
You Don’t Have To Like It, But You Should Try
It had been a long day. He was tired. He just wanted his teenage step-daughter Tegan, from the indie pop duo Tegan and Sara, to…
They’re The Only Ones In There
It seems obvious but we violate it pretty much constantly. To some people, their basic definition of parenting violates it, but that doesn’t mean that…
They Need You To Do This For Them
There’s a story about Queen Elizabeth, told in Discipline is Destiny. After a long day of travel with her late husband, Prince Philip, the Queen…
Your Future Is What You Make It
It’s so far away, so long from now it’s almost impossible to conceive. Even two weeks from now is difficult to consider, but still, it’s…
What Will Your Kids See?
The great suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst had two childhood memories that stood out to her beyond any others. The first, perhaps her earliest, was of her…
The Key To Real Happiness
As we said recently, no parent has ever successfully shielded their child from negative feelings or distress. No parent has done it and no grown…
It’s Hard Being A Kid
It would be nice if the world was nice. It would be nice if it was easy to be a kid. Unfortunately, it isn’t. It’s…
Deal With It Now
We all have our issues. We had trauma from childhood. We have bad habits we picked up in college. We have scripts we learned, patterns…