by Rich Patterson | Aug 17, 2018 | Parenting
Parenting on Purpose: Display Your Personal Best In the past few days, we’ve been talking about the choice we have to ignore our circumstances and choose to be our best. Today I would like to offer, Display Your Personal Best. When things start to close in... by Rich Patterson | Aug 15, 2018 | Parenting
It’s in the People Parenting our kids requires constant calibration. I mean, it seems like we’re constantly adjusting, catching, cautioning, checking, reassuring, helping, pushing; the list is endless. In the blog on 08/13/18, I wrote about Focusing on... by Rich Patterson | Aug 13, 2018 | Parenting
Parenting on Purpose: Focus on Energy The voice on the phone said to me, “You’re so positive!” I thought to myself, wow, she can tell just from one sentence. She further said that she gets so few positive calls that she immediately could tell that... by Rich Patterson | Aug 10, 2018 | Parenting
Parenting on Purpose: Influence #1 In this series on influencing your kids rather than disciplining them, I have discussed the benefits of seven approaches to controlling based on John Maxwell’s book, The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership. Today we are focusing... by Rich Patterson | Aug 8, 2018 | Communication, Parenting
Parenting on Purpose: 7 Influences with Your Kids Think about the times in your life when you made a change. When things were calm, you had time to reflect on an event or series of events in your life that produced change. How did that come about? Who were the... by Rich Patterson | Aug 6, 2018 | Communication, Parenting
Parenting on Purpose: Influence Your Kids I would often wonder why I even tried to discipline our kids as a parent. I mean, after a while, it just doesn’t seem to work! They take the punishment and then go about their business with a very short or not at all... by Rich Patterson | Aug 3, 2018 | Character, Communication, Encouragement
Being Positive During Negative Times In general, let’s face it, the human psyche default is to the negative. Never is that so obvious as it is during difficult times. The times when it seems like your kids aren’t listening, won’t listen, and things... by Rich Patterson | Aug 1, 2018 | Communication, Encouragement, Parenting
How Can We Invest, Not Over Correct? Often as parents, we get caught up in correcting our kids so much that it seems that is all we’re doing. It is so easy to do, and there are so many opportunities! Right? I know that as a parent, I indeed fell into this... by Rich Patterson | Jul 30, 2018 | Encouragement, Parenting
Parenting on Purpose: Perseverance In part four of my series Parenting on Purpose, I address perseverance. How do you keep going when you don’t feel like it? Teach this life skill to your kids by example. When I think of how I learned perseverance, I credit... by Rich Patterson | Jul 27, 2018 | Encouragement, Parenting
Part three. Parenting on Purpose: Motive When working with a personal coach, I recently told her about something that I wanted to focus on next. She said to me, “What is your motive?” I thought for a moment and realized that my motive was not a good...
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