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Four Groups of Parents that Raise Great Kids
Today, I will talk about four groups of parents that raise great kids. Which one do you hang out in most often? read on.....
The Power of Words To Create (Part 1)
Today, I will talk about how our children can put themselves in victim mode by unconscious use of words. read on.....
The Power of Words in Raising Great Kids (Part 2)
Today, we're going to do part two of the power of words in raising great kids. Last time we talked about how statements can kind of put us in a victim mentality, even without us realizing it. read on.....
Again, Seriously?
Children and adults sometimes do those same unhelpful behaviors over and over again. Today, we're going to discuss why that might be.read on.....
Children’s Psychological Needs
Today, I want to talk to you about what the psychological needs of children are and what they are not. In school, we have lots of children. A classroom could have anywhere between 22 and 27 children in the younger grades, or even higher under special circumstances. read on.....
We Can't Know It All
Today, we're going to talk about how as parents, we can't know it all, and it's okay. I am the mother of two adult children. I've had the opportunity to homeschool them for multiple years. I am a public education elementary teacher. read on.....
Baby Super Powers
Good morning, everyone! As I'm getting ready for work, I decided it might be great for me to start leaving little messages. I was remembering something happened about a year and a half ago. Somebody asked me what superpower I would want if I were to have any superpower. read on.....
Where Do Children's Behavior Come From
Today, I want to discuss where children's behaviors come from. When parents come to me, there are a lot of questions around this. Why does my child do this? How come they do that? I want to go a little bit into that and have that foundational understanding of where some of the behaviors come from.read on.....
Beneficial Use of Weaknesses
Today, I want to talk about the beneficial use of weaknesses. We all have weaknesses. I do a lot of things that have to do with science and the current research out there. read on.....
My Children Are Messed Up
Today, I want to talk about children who are messed up. Children are messed up. We live in a world where nothing is perfect, and that includes our children. I recall one time when my daughter was a teenager read on.....
How To Calm Your Child With Breathing
Today, I want to talk about how we can calm our children down, particularly through breathing. Children have trouble calming for multiple reason. Think about tantrums: children like to throw tantrums...
Today, I want to talk about who I feed the most. This week I was reading in Joshua in the Old Testament. Joshua said, “Choose ye this day whom ye will serve.” That really made me think about who it is that I serve. read on.....
When Gratitude Becomes Manipulation
Today, I want to talk about when gratitude becomes a manipulation. The things I talk about are those things that I’ve studied, researched, I’ve applied read on...
Get Unstuck and Help Your Child
What to do when we feel stuck and not sure how to help our child? Often, we work and we do something and we think that's what's gonna help her child read on...
A Big Hack For Building Connection With Your Child
Today I wanna talk about a hack that is a super vital hack in building a relationship with a child, and that hack is to allow your child to be heard. So often, a read on...
Why Children Pick Up Unhelpful Thought Patterns
Today I want to talk about why our brain picks up unhelpful programs, and we often focus on those unhopeful programs because those are the ones that read on...
The Power of the Stories We Tell Ourselves
Today I want to talk about something very subtle in our minds sometimes and sometimes not. That is the stories we tell ourselves perhaps the stories read on...
When Children Don’t Live Up To Their Potential
Today I want to talk about when children are not living up to their full potential.
Today, I want to talk about when children are not living up to their full read on...
When We’re Sick & Tired
Today I wanna talk about when we as parents are sick and tired. Sometimes in life we end up without sleep, as we're carrying for infants or elderly or just because we end up sick, we get colds, we get read on...
We Beat People With The Stick We Accuse Them Of
Today I'm gonna talk about how we beat people with this stick we accuse them of, and this can be a very read on...
The Psychological Need of Certainty In Children
Today I wanted to talk about that basic first human psychological meaning we have, and that is for certainty. Today I'm talking a little deeper about that first psychological need read on...
Building Resiliency in Children
Resilience in children is so important now. There is so much in our world that isn't perfect, and having that resilience for our children will help them live their best lives. I'm strong but a general and special education teacher. I homeschooled my children for read on...
We Can’t Teach What We Don’t Know Is A Lie
It's been said that we can't teach what we don't know. But that is a lie. Hoping that it can help you wherever you're at in your journey. I've been told and I've said this many times read on...
Feelings vs Growth, Which Is Most Important?
And that is a loaded question. One is. Not more important than the other, what I wanna talk about today are ways that we can support our child's emotions in a read on...
Changes That Last
Today I'm going to talk about how changes that matter last. Now change is difficult. We hear that all the time. Change is difficult; It's so hard to change. I'm too old to change. I'm too set in my ways to change. If we don't apply it to read on...
Children’s External Battles Are A Sign Of Internal Conflict
When it comes to children, external fighting and that external conflict, whether it's arguing physically attacking a sibling or parent, whether it's the conflict of I just refuse read on...
Urgent Parenting Tip!
Today, I'm talking about urgency. As parents, we have a lot going on. We have all the things for our children. We might have work, we might have doctors appointments, health things, other family members we need to read on...
Being Down On Ourselves Is Prideful
Sometimes children can really get down on themselves when things don't go the way they want or they feel like. T read on...
Persistent Tattletaling Issues?
Tattletales can really be draining if it's that constant. Guys are something they need to come tell you about and that's the tattletale that wants you to rescue them, to save them, to, to make everything better for them. read on...
Foundations of Learning
I would like to share with you some of the foundations of learning now with the last couple of years, a lot of people being home. I'm trying to learn online or more isolated as children are coming back into public school read on...
Our Mind Controls Our Body, We Can Control Our Mind
What do we do to teach children that their minds control their bodies and that they can learn to control their minds? Now that can be a pretty tricky thing. read on...
How We Respond to A Child's Errors Creates a Growth or Fixed Mindset
Now when we consider that, it will either help our child to create a growth mindset or a fixed mindset. So let's dive deeper into this. Today I would like to talk about our read on...
Teaching Responsibility For Emotions
Our happiness and our joy in life revolves around our emotions. What if we were able to teach our children to be responsible for their own emotions so that there's no fear of somebody taking away their joy or read on...
#1 Reason We Fail At Changing Children’s Behaviors
Today I wanna talk about changing children's behaviors and this is not about changing their behaviors. Because that doesn't work. Now, one of the big things that we work read on...
Raising Great Kids When We Are Struggling
Today I wanna talk about how you still can raise great kids even if you have depression or anxiety, even if you have or are currently experiencing abuse.I've experienced depression and anxiety of my own, and there are different read on...
Why We Lose It With Our Children
Today I'm going to talk about why we lose it with our children. I know there are many beliefs out there. I haven't had enough sleep. I've got too much going on. They refuse to listen. They're not doing what I told them. And this read on...
Bringing Hope
I want to share a feeling that I had while I was having a conversation with a group of women. And in this group of women, there were some who were like, I'm never gonna have a child, and there's those who we read on...
Body Movement To Help Children Learn
Using our body and all the senses that come with our body can really accelerate learning in ourselves and in our children read on...
Helping Our Children Achieve
Helping our children achieve requires us to help them have a word mindset and that will include setting goals and I know goals can read on...
Electronics Have Ruined My Child
Today I want to talk about how electronics have ruined my kids. Now what I hear a lot is nothing regarding electronics. It's just a part of read on...
What Our Child’s Behaviors Are Not
Today I wanted to talk about what our child's behaviors are not. When we look at our children, sometimes we'll say, oh, they're just lazy, or we'll say, oh, that's their personality and we decide what their behaviors are. R and we stop looking for answers.read on...
The Similarities Between Public Schools And Parenting
I'm going to talk about the similarities between school and parenting, teaching and parenting. It is sometimes that I learn something that is apparent and then I'm able to apply it in my classroom. Sometimes there are read on...
Habits That Help, Habits That Hinder
Today I am talking about habits and it's really easy to pick up habits and we can pick up long-term habits, and we can pick up short-term habits or habits that we pick up pretty quickly. One example of this is when I was in school, so I was taking a special education class and we were simulating trying to read on...
Do You Know This About Your Child?
Do you know this about your child? We might think we know as parents, but do we really know what your child's dreams are? What do they hope for? What do they want for themselves and their lives? What are their interests that they want to explore? read on...
Solve Problems By Having A System Of Communication
When it comes to solving problems with another person, it is never the problem. That's the real issue, the real issue is having a system in place where you can communicate with your own programs and your own fears read on...
Having All The Right Answers As A Parent
I want to talk about having all the right answers. As a parent, this is something we are often all seeking for, but here's kind of where it gets tricky. Our school systems, any of the school systems, especially the read on...
Did You Know This About Your Child’s Brain?
Today I want to talk about something we may not have realized about our children. We realize but we're trying to avoid it. It is the fact that we mess them up. Sometimes, we think that if we've messed up our children, then read on...
Disagreements Don’t Have To Feel Yucky
Welcome to this 71st episode. I am super excited to be able to continue forward and be able to share more information with you.
Today I want to talk about disagreements and how disagreements often read on...
Build Your Child’s Growth Mindset For Improvement
I want to share with you a little, I said that really thoughtful, questioning face that led to his aha moment. So I just got to see his face kind of go Ahah! Those are some of my favorite moments, and read on...
Looking For Improvement Relieves Stress
Last episode I talked about helping children to look for improvement in their activities, and I did. Still a school scenario. That's what was on my mind at the time, but I want to talk a little bit more about read on...
Teaching Children Gratitude
Hi, today I want to talk about how to teach our children gratitude, because that can be tricky in this world. It can be a challenge sometimes to teach children how to be grateful for the things they read on...
3 Phases of Living. Which Phase Are You In?
Today I wanna talk about phases of life. Phase one, the phase we will find ourselves in with that pain and suffering. Well, we don't know what to do. We're feeling stuck. We are really struggling in a read on...
Narcissism
In Relation
To Children
Today, I want to talk about the news a little bit like if you look at your news feeds, if you look at what's commonly out there that tries to get your attention. A lot of it is negative and they try to create tension read on...
Children
As
Cellphones
Consider your children as cell phones. It might seem a little odd to say it that way, but I was hoping you could consider when our brains take on programs, and brain brains use programs very much like read on...
The Role of Significance in Children's Behavior
Significance is one of the basic psychological needs all children have. They can meet that need externally, which can cause a lot of harm or damage or behaviors that are not helpful, or they read on...
Our Thoughts,
Health,
and Children
I can't believe I just said that; I'm such an idiot. What are people going to think? Wait for a second; he just did that. Can you believe he just did that? Or if we just look at our child on what we do read on...
Understanding Neuroplasticity In Raising Children
Learn to deal with or cope with those things. It's crazy to think about now with the new research, but that's what was felt and if you consider what that means, how people will label that one, how read on...
The
Purpose
of Pain
Pain is often something we try to avoid, and it may absolutely be something we don't seek out. But avoiding it can actually lead to more pain. It seems interesting that we don't want to avoid paying read on...
Children
with
Attitudes
Have you noticed that children can have two attitudes? Well, they all have attitudes, but there are some attitudes we prefer and others we don't. Here's the question. Where do attitudes come from? read on...
What We Think We Want For Our Children vs What We Really Want For Our Children
What is it that we really want for or even from our children? This is a big question, and as we get into this, and perhaps what we think we want read on...
Hidden Consequences To Liking Our Children To Need Us
It can feel good to be needed by our children. How do we find that balance between feeling good and also allowing our children their independence?
Parents With Depression or Other Mental Health Challenges
Today I want to talk a little bit about my story, so I am addressing those parents who are struggling with some mental read on...
Helping Children In Social Challenges
Today I want to talk about when children run into problems in a social situation. It could be at the playground, at the library or at school. How do we help them to handle some of these social situation read on...
Escaping
is Detrimental To
Our Children
How the escapes have actually caused children stress. I'm talking about escapes. We all have escapes. Our children have escaped. In the modern world, there's even more ways to escaperead on...
