“Happiness is a view of the world,” writes Cathy Greenberg and Barrett Avigdor. “It comes when you align your life to your values, learn to love and forgive yourself and…
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When I was a child, my mother yelling didn’t affect me as much as when she said, “I’m disappointed.” Therefore, as Amy McCready explained the power of “The Calm…
“You’ve tried everything. Time-outs. Yelling. Reminding. Nagging. Taking away privileges. Counting to three. And none of them worked. Like most parents, you’re fed up,” author Amy McCready sympathizes. Promoted as…
Author Neale S. Godfrey insists children “must be able to see, and be able to identify, the physical substance of money before they can do anything with it.” Therefore, in…
“Teaching children about money is not teaching about greed or teaching them to become soulless, grasping little Ebenezer scrooges,” author Neale S. Godfrey writes. “Money is about values, about…
Enthusiastic? Yes. Optimistic? Definitely. But naïve, they weren’t. Even after Robert and Page Bethke completed the six-week intensive course they jokingly referred to as “the scared straight for adoptive parents,”…
by Lynne Kenney PsyD The Family Coach, author of The Family Coach Method www.lynnekenney.com Extraordinary…boy, isn’t that a nice word? Beyond the ordinary…transcending the mundane….unexpected and astonishing. Is this possible?…
“The one really positive message I got from my mom and dad was that anything you want to do, you could do… The harder you work, the more talented you…
I’ve had See Jane Win by Dr. Sylvia Rimm on my bookshelf for well over a year. Having just finished blogging about Amy Chua’s Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,…
“Don’t be fooled,” laughs Kerin Morgan, owner of Richmondbased Morgan Swim School. “Kids can do so much more than you think.” It is the last lesson of the day for…
I chose to blog about The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom by Amy Chua in the hope that reading the book would motivate me to become more disciplined, make…
“Chinese parents believe that their kids owe them everything.” Therefore, when her daughters gave her homemade birthday cards she deemed unacceptable, Chua gave them back. “I want a better one…