TEACHING EMPATHY

Crucial life skill for our kids - kindness, understanding and the impact of 'accidental teaching'.

Weissbourd and his cohorts have come up with recommendations about how to raise children to become caring, respectful and responsible adults. Why is this important? Because if we want our children to be moral people, we have to, well, raise them that way.

“Children are not born simply good or bad and we should never give up on them. They need adults who will help them become caring, respectful, and responsible for their communities at every stage of their childhood,” the researchers write.

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PRAISE & ENCOURAGEMENT

How we praise and encourage our kids has a direct impact on their self esteem. In Chapter 9 in The Tool Box: The Glue, Self Esteem and self Confidence, we talk about praise.

To be meaningful praise needs to be real, we are striving to have our teens be independent, self aware and achieving people who understand what it takes to accomplish a task or project.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barbara-greenberg/how-to-praise-your-kids_b_2862815.html?utm_hp_ref=parents-teens

THE BOILING POINT

Helping your teen avoid a melt down. There are specific skills that we can teach and share with our kids that give them a better chance of managing their emotional ups and downs!

Being a teenager can feel like living inside a pressure cooker. The combined challenges of excelling in school, participating in extracurricular activities, putting in community service hours, working a part-time job (for some), negotiating relationships and managing hormonal changes could all be ingredients for disaster.

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THE EXPANDING TOOL BOX

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The Tool Box: Building Better Relationships with Teens 

Now available as an interactive, web based program, based on the strategies of the popular book and workshop. The program will individually coach parents through many issues of raising tweens and teens.

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TIPS FOR SUMMER

As we head into the summer months, here are some excellent suggestions.

Trust, Dollars and Sense, Technology, Tracking vs Spying, Curfews - Lots of good advice




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Father's Day

In honor of Father's Day
We have an opportunity to change the conversation.
We have the power to teach boys to be men of character.
Please watch, share and act.

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LYING

Lying is an issue that most parents deal with while raising kids.  Annie Fox does a great job coaching parents through this challenge.


"It doesn't help to think of your son as a "liar".  The kid made a mistake and he needs a course correction.  That's what you're there for. So take a slow deep breath...."

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