by Rich Patterson | Nov 28, 2018 | Character, Encouragement, Personal Improvement
Take Responsibility for your Attitude It is much easier to push responsibility for our attitude to our circumstances and those around us. In many ways, your attitude aligns with being happy. You hear people say quite often, “She made me mad” or “If...
by Rich Patterson | Nov 26, 2018 | Character, Communication, Family & Relationships
Attitude is Contagious Recently I was reading a series of articles on palm reading. You know, the lines in your palm that help to tell your story. As I study the basics of palm reading, I discovered that many of their explanations of the little lines going in...
by Rich Patterson | Sep 12, 2018 | Achievement, Character, Encouragement
Always Be Your Best On Friday of this week, I have the opportunity to speak to middle school students and parents for their school’s National Junior Honor Society program. I choose to talk about “Always Be Your Best.” I want to tell them how proud...
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 | Jul 13, 2018 | Character, Communication, Family & Relationships
Disagreeing Appropriately Today I want to speak with you about teaching our kids to disagree appropriately. There are many examples of people getting so angry when they disagree with someone. They lose their temper, and then a relationship is forever changed, if not...
by Rich Patterson | Jul 11, 2018 | Character, Communication, Family & Relationships
Initiating A Conversation As an educator, I frequently have noticed that some students have difficulty initiating a conversation. For whatever reason, they feel like they have nothing to say or that they don’t know what to say. As parents, when we notice that...
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