How Do I Deal with the Stress of Our Family?
Family stress is inevitable but overwhelm is not. Put some of these ideas into action to help you and your family thrive.
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How to Raise Resilient and Responsible Children
It is an era of the over-indulged child. Here we explore how we might build resilience while encouraging the development of responsible children.
Home Sweet Home: Make it Yours (Children Included)
It is easier than you imagine to make a house into a home. Create a place of refuge for all family members including the children.
Good Parenting and Communication Prevents Peas Up Their Noses
Do you remember a television show called Kids Say the Darndest Things? It aired from 1998 to 2000. Well, I propose that often times parents say the darndest things. I used to say them myself until I learned to improve my communication skills. Good parenting starts with awareness and then choosing better. Here we will […]
Protective Factors to Boost Children’s Resilience
She bent down and tied up her 9-year-old’s shoe strings. Remarkably, the little guy is a bright, and potentially capable, boy. Millennials (those born between the mid-1990s to early 2000s) are often times called The Me Me Me Generation. They tend to be over-protected from challenge, consequences, and tears. As the family researcher, Jean Illsley […]
How to Resign from ‘Making’ Happy Children
While happiness is a desirable emotional state, compassion and empathy are developed through opportunities to feel disappointment, sorrow and pain. Parents weaken their children’s resilience when they protect them from experiencing the uncomfortable consequences of life’s hard bits. Consequently, I invited parents to resign from believing or attempting to make happy children. I am not […]
Fed Up With the Kids? How to Manage Parental Anger
Most parents want to be joyful, encouraging and wise with their children
Gag Your Nagging: Ways to Communicate More Effectively
Rebecca Eckler, a reporter with the National Post, interviewed Patricia Morgan about her workshop, Gag Your Nagging. They discussed why, when and how women nag.
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