Category: Parenting & Co-Parenting
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Teaching the Next Generation: Lessons 4 Successful Parenting
Teaching Respect and Positive Parenting A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone. Billy Graham I often hear the word respect thrown around as if one is entitled to something. The sad fact is that 99.9% of the time I hear this term used, it…
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Practical Parenting Now: A Promise 4 the Heart
Parenting Words of Wisdom “Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” Christopher Robin Parenting from the Heart What child should not hear these words daily? However, the problem, as I see it, is that we have been taught primarily from a material…
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Practical Parenting: Let Go of Past Hurts 4 New Beginnings
Parenting Wisdom “The Golden Rule of Parenting is do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!” ~Louise Hart “The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.” O. A. Battista A Psychology of Parenting If we have had parents, we have…
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Practical Parenting 4 a Positive Future Generation
A Philosophy for Parenting Instilling Responsibility, Hope, and Honoring Childhood Bliss Parenting is a collective affair. I started my professional journey long ago, teaching the next generation in a kindergarten classroom. While I have practiced psychology for two decades now, I cannot help but see some atrocities at play in the one place parents should…
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Practical Parenting and Teaching Accountability
A Throwback from the Past We all need to teach the next generation values. If we don’t as parents, who will? That is a significant question we all face these days, as who knows what deviance the education system exposes our children. Do we know if the places they spend most of their days teach…
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What I Wish I Would Have Known about Sleep: Rules for Practical Parenting
Scenario Scenario It’s 9 pm, the children’s bedtime, and the oldest just then informs you that he needs to take a bath. Okay, it’s summer break anyways, I think to myself. The conversation between everyone begins at 9:15 pm, and as you are reminding them of the need to go to bed, it continues anyways.…
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Practical Parenting: Hey Papa, Can I Buy GFUEL?
One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World One believes because one’s conditioning trains them to do so. I could see this wholeheartedly in my son’s drive to have us buy GFuel, a new energy drink product. He is a gamer, the very demographic I am sure, is…
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Practical Parenting: I’m Bored
I think it’s necessary to let kids get bored once in a while – that’s how they learn to be creative. Kim Raver My son recently came to me the other day, telling me, “Pappa, I’m bored.” My heart sank. As a psychotherapist, I know that boredom is the primary way children communicate their feelings…
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To See Through the Eyes of a Child… What Dreams May Come?
Inspirational Quotes Children see magic Because they look for it… Christopher Moore History will judge us by the difference we make in the everyday lives of children. Nelson Mandela Parenting through Magical Means We are all teachers. We bare this title because if we have made it this far, we have done something that only…
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A Seed of Hope… What will Tomorrow Bring?
Inspirational Quotes Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. John F. Kennedy Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. Henry Ward Beecher A Father’s Guide to Practical Parenting In this week’s inspiration, I turn my focus to the next generation. For it is in…
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Inspiration: Education – A Journey of Hope & Faith
Inspiration Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom. — Oprah Winfrey Intelligence plus character—that is the true goal of education — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Practical Parenting – The Home-Schooling Perspective Homeschooling? Wow… It’s been twenty plus years and I swear, it was easier to be a kindergarten teacher…
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Practical Parenting… Iced Coffee and Good Conversation!
Inspiration If you want your children to listen, try talking softly to someone else. – Ann Landers Recipe for iced coffee: Have kidsMake coffeeForget you made coffeeDrink it cold (Anonymous) Practical Parenting… An Unforgettable Journey Have some fun with you kids. They express their stress not in words but in behaviors. Take them out, get…