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Response to Tommy Jordan’s YouTube Video – Is He Sharing Powerful Tips on Parenting?

I just watched the video where a dad, Tommy Jordan, frustrated, angry and hurt about his daughter’s rebellious and rude post on Facebook, shoots his daughter’s laptop. I was asked by a parent in our community to give my thoughts on the video, and I’m grateful that she asked. It’s a topic that affects most [...]

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Tips on Parenting: Expect to be Hacked!

You may be surprised to see that this week’s tips on parenting come from my website being hacked! It is a powerful analogy for parenting. I encourage you to read and see if your family is vulnerable to being hacked as well. If you were on my site last week, you would have received a [...]

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Childhood Doesn’t Wait: Tips on Parenting

Many of the best tips on parenting help you to shift your perspective. Once you see things differently, you behave differently as well. As a recovering perfectionist, I am careful to add that it is important not to use this poem, or others like it, to point out our own short-comings, but to do better [...]

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Tips on Parenting: Parenting as The Most Amazing (and Demanding) Journey we Could Take!

“The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.” ~ Julien Green I love sharing tips on parenting that inspire you to parent from a more conscious, competent place. Sometimes a great metaphor can help us to transform the challenges [...]

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Tips on Parenting: Loving your Child and Yourself, Sometimes Means Fighting to Stay in Love with the Other Parent

Many of the best tips on parenting that I know are about our personal growth, and not about our kids at all! I first encountered the idea that parenting is meant to grow ourselves up from an early mentor of mine, Dr. Gordon Neufeld. It was so helpful for me to realize that the ways [...]

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Tips on Parenting: Powerful Story of Connecting with the Kids in Your Children’s Lives

Tips on Parenting: Powerful Story of Connecting with the Kids in Your Children’s Lives

A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove…but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child. ~ Forest E. Witcraft I want to share a powerful story with [...]

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Tips on Parenting: Want to Give Your Teens Motivation, Academics and Life Skills a Boost?

I am excited to bring you this weeks tips on parenting because we are doing a live interview with a leading expert in effective learning and youth development. I’ll keep this blog post short and you can join us on the live call, or listen to the replay and get a wealth of information. If [...]

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Tips on Parenting: Overcoming Chaos and Overwhelm

Without the abrasion of sand, there would be no pearl! If you are experiencing overwhelm, chaos and battling mood issues such as anger, depression and anxiety, it can seem completely hopeless. You may feel that although you love your children deeply, the parenting thing just isn’t working out like you planned. You may even have [...]

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How to be a Scream Free Parent, My Interview with Hal Runkel

If you want tips on parenting without yelling, this interview is a must! Hal Runkel is the best-selling author of ScreamFree Parenting. Last Sept, I had the pleasure of interviewing him and finding out more about why his approach is so popular and effective. It was a great interview, which is why I decided to [...]

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Tips on Parenting: How to Stop Yelling and Engage Cooperation

Yelling has been called the new spanking. When I survey the parents I work with, I frequently am asked for help learning not to yell at your kids.  Although it represents great progress that we don’t consider hitting our children to be acceptable anymore, many parents feel stuck yelling at their kids, while being aware [...]

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