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Break Free Parenting Part 1
Empowering NRG- Discipline versus Punishment, How are They Different and Why is This Important?
- Personal Power, Making it Part of Your Every Day World
- Parenting Confidence – An Oxymoron or A Wonderful Possibility?
- Building Confidence, A Starting Point For Standing In Your Power
- Peak at Parenting – Modeling a Genuine apology
- Raising Leaders
- A Resilient Reminder
- January Jones & I talk Break Free Parenting – Successimo Blogtalkradio
- Parent Power: What it is and why it’s important we know about it
- Positive Procrastination – Tips for Helpful Side-tracking
Category Archives: Relationships
Discipline versus Punishment, How are They Different and Why is This Important?
Did you know that how you interact with your child on a daily basis can have a greater impact on his success in life than any extra-curricular activities you put him in? Did you know that one, healthy, positive and … Continue reading
January Jones & I talk Break Free Parenting – Successimo Blogtalkradio
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Parent Power: What it is and why it’s important we know about it
Parent Power is the authority given to us as parents to enforce rules and boundaries with our children in order to teach them right from wrong. It gives us permission to get things done using the power of our position … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Parenting, Relationships, self-awareness, Teenagers
Tagged mutual respect, parent power, Parenting, self-awareness
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Guest Blog, Over Parenting Verses Guidance
Guest Blog by: Debra Beck I have been reading a lot of different articles about over-parenting or “helicopter parenting” and thought it might be a topic that warrants a discussion. I believe that if parents are always there to pick … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, guest blog, Parenting, Relationships, Teenagers
Tagged guidance, Parenting, parenting guidelines, teens
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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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Understanding Teenagers and Their Relationship With Parents
A practicum is the opportunity for a trained student to practice what they have learned, adapt their style to fit them and receive constructive feedback to help them really understand the role. Our teens are working on a degree in … Continue reading
The Practice of Being a Teen
Do you remember what life was like being a teenager? You feel so sure of yourself half the time and so vulnerable and confused the other half. If someone had told me back then that as a mature woman I would still … Continue reading
Posted in Parenting, Personal development, Relationships, Teenagers
Tagged parenting teens, Raising 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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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
Posted in Communication, Parenting, Personal development, Relationships
Tagged parenting tools, self-awareness, yelling
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