Parenting: Raise Good Decision Makers
One of the most powerful ways you can encourage your children to become successful, happy, and contributing people is to teach them good decision making and then to allow them to make their own decisions. The decisions that your children make as they approach adulthood dictate the people they become and the life paths they […]
Read MoreParenting: The Lost Art of Play
Play is becoming a dinosaur in the lives of children in 21st century America. According to studies, school-age children’s playtime decreased by 25 percent and older children’s playtime by 45 percent between 1981 and 1997. Unstructured outdoor activities also declined by 50 percent. Between school, homework, organized youth sports—which is no longer real play—music and […]
Read MoreParenting: Teach Your Kids to Suck it Up
Popular culture conveys to children very unhealthy messages about responsibility. Through its focus on the pampered lifestyles of the rich and famous and advertising that suggests that life should always be a party, popular culture communicates to your children that if it’s not fun, easy, or interesting, they just shouldn’t have to do it. If […]
Read MoreParenting: Win the Battles of Will — So Your Kids Win the War
Conflict is a natural part of the parent-child relationship and essential to your children’s separation from you into independent beings. The challenge is not that you are going to have conflicts with your children periodically, but whether they develop into full-scale war that drives you and your children apart, and interferes with their development. How […]
Read MoreParenting: Fear of Failure
Fear of failure among children in America today is at epidemic proportions. Fear of failure causes children to experience debilitating anxiety before they take a test, compete in a sport, or perform in a recital. It causes them to give less than their best effort, not take risks, and, ultimately, never achieve complete success. Cause […]
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