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Category Archives: Communication
Unconditional Love
Unconditional love is about accepting a person simply because they exist and for no other reason. This kind of love is not influenced by the other person’s behaviour, attitude or ability to do as you ask. When you love someone unconditionally … Continue reading
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Tagged conditional love, self-awareness, unconditional love
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Peak at Parenting; Separating rude behaviour from uncomfortable feelings
When kids start new things like a new grade at school, new hockey team, new music lessons… it creates stress in their lives. For some kids this stress wears off quickly as they adapt to the changes and experience the … Continue reading
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Tagged angry kids, great parenting, rude behaviour, self-awareness
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Creating Rules and Boundaries You and Your Teenager Can Live With
Although the teenage years are about practicing, learning and integrating what they’ve accumulated up until now, they still require our involvement. If we continue with the practicum analogy, a good supervisor has clear expectations, rules and boundaries that are consistently … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Parenting, Relationships, Teenagers
Tagged Parenting, parenting teens, rules for teens, Teenagers
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Raising a Teenager
How would you react to your teen’s behaviour, if no one else was watching and it could not come back to reflect on you in any way? Lately I’ve had quite a few parents asking me questions about raising teens. As a … Continue reading
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Tagged Parenting, Raising Teens, Teenagers
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A Personal Perspective
We spend a lot of energy taking things personally, when they weren’t really ours to begin with. For example we might make eye contact with a person in a mall at the same moment that she sneers. Suddenly we’re wondering – … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Parenting, Personal development, Relationships
Tagged over-reacting, Personal development, self-awareness
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Alternatives to Yelling: Strengthening Your Parenting Tools & Strategies
There are a lot of great tools/strategies out there, but none that will totally replace a fear-based tool. It is helpful to learn a lot of strategies so you have a variety of options to choose from, but it’s even … Continue reading
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Tagged parenting tools, Personal development, self-awareness, yelling
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Yelling too much? Tips for turning down the volume
Most parents will admit that they yell at their kids more than they would like and wish they knew how to turn down the volume. Knowing why we yell (Part 1) and understanding why yelling isn’t a good parenting tool … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Parenting, Personal development
Tagged Communication, self-awareness, self-control, yelling
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Why Yelling is Not a Good Parenting Tool
Although yelling is probably the most commonly used parenting tool it really isn’t a very effective one. Here are my top three reasons I don’t recommend using it as a regular parenting tool: 1) Its a fear-based tool. Any tool … Continue reading
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Tagged parenting tools, self-awareness, yelling
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Are You Barking up the Wrong Tree? Why We Yell
Yelling is something most parents will admit to doing at some point in their parenting journey. Most wish they didn’t do it and some will put themselves through a lot of grief wondering why they can’t seem to stop this … Continue reading
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Tagged Parenting, self-awareness, self-control, yelling
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Two Wrongs Don’t Make It Right
When people make a negative statement about themselves they are looking for understanding…not correction. Yet how often when we hear our kids say, “I’m stupid,” or “Nobody likes me,” do we correct? Unfortunately most of us have a built in … Continue reading
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Tagged being self-aware, Communication, great parenting
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