These Kids Today, They’ve Got No Respect! A few years ago I was at a parent council meeting at my daughter’s school and one of the parents was going on […]

Receiving Feedback And Being Open To Change Is An Important Parenting Skill The ability to take feedback and learn new things is vital to continual self-development. I suppose this is […]

Teach the Opposites My daughter is a very optimistic happy joyful Kid. She is very fair and giving and fun. She is loving and patient and kind. Yet she is […]

We often hear that the best way to teach kids is by example. This is harder to do than it seems There are 2 main reasons why it is difficult […]

Tantrum in The Library A good friend of mine who works in a library was telling me about an 8 year old girl she witnessed having a tantrum today. Something […]

Be Worthy Of Respect In order to raise respectful children and teens I would say that the first thing is for parents to start developing themselves and being worthy of […]

Yesterday a friend asked me how do courage and fear play a role in my parenting? He wanted to know how fear affected my behaviour and how I used courage […]

One of the things that helped me in my journey to parent in a different way was to always focus on the long term life skills that I was teaching […]

One common concept in traditional parenting is the idea that “Rewarding bad behaviour in children only encourages it. Instead there should be a negative consequence so that the child learns […]

My Pain is a Gift I value the pain I have gone through in my life as a gift. It has taught me a lot and brought me to the […]