Parenting: Your Children Send Messages Too
Though my focus in Your Children are Listening is on how you can send healthy messages to your children, the message highway is not one way. Your children are constantly sending you messages that you may or may not be getting or interpreting correctly. Your ability to receive and understand those messages can help you […]
Read MoreParenting/Popular Culture: Where are the Children?
See the photo to the right side of my post? A neighbor of mine, Larry Mansbach, emailed it to me because he thought it would make a good blog post. Well, he’s right. The photo was taken on a beautiful July Saturday afternoon at the fields and playground of an elementary school in Marin County […]
Read MoreParenting: Are You Sending Bad Messages to Your Children?
Note: This post is excerpted from my latest parenting book, Your Children are Listening: Nine Messages They Need to Hear from You. Of course, you love your children and want to send them the very healthiest messages so they internalize the most positive values, attitudes, and beliefs about themselves and the world. But, as many adult […]
Read MoreEducation: Arne and Bill’s Misguided Adventure: An Open Letter
Dear Arne and Bill, I really don’t understand you two, the U.S. Secretary of Education and the world’s second richest man and noted philanthropist. How can you possibly say that public education can be reformed without eliminating poverty? Let’s start with you, Arne. Here’s a quote from you: “When I was in Chicago, people used […]
Read MoreTechnology: Is Technology Stealing Our (Self) Identities?
Our self-identities, that is, how we define and see ourselves as unique individuals, play a vital role in who we are and the direction that our lives take. The self-identity encompasses the totality of knowledge and understanding that we gain about ourselves as we develop including our personalities, aptitudes and capabilities, intellectual and physical attributes, […]
Read MoreParenting: The Best Messages to Send Your Children
Note: This post is excerpted from my latest parenting book, Your Children are Listening: Nine Messages They Need to Hear from You. The most important thing that you can do to ensure that your children get the right messages is for you to know what those right messages. This understanding is not a given for […]
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