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...
by Rich Patterson | Jul 9, 2018 | Character, Communication, Encouragement
Make An Apology When I was a young boy and had done something wrong, my mother would remind me to make an apology. I would readily do so but frequently felt as if I was defective somehow that I had done something that no one else had done. It wasn’t a...
by Rich Patterson | Jun 27, 2018 | Communication, Parenting, Teenagers
Raising Defiant Kids As a school administrator, I watched many teachers at some time during their career get into a tangle with kids over something the kids refused to do. Working with defiant kids is much like working with contrary adults, and here are a few...
by Rich Patterson | Jun 25, 2018 | Communication, Encouragement, Family & Relationships
Patience & Gratitude = Latitude Today I want to write to you about teaching our kids patience and gratitude. So often, we come to expect certain conventions, certain things to happen because they always have or because we want them to happen. But what happens...
by Rich Patterson | Jun 22, 2018 | Communication, Encouragement, Parenting
Balance–Seasons & Kids For years I have struggled with Balance in my life. As I spoke with friends and colleagues, I found that so does nearly everyone. It seems that we’re never quite in Balance and always striving to keep everything going in the...
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