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 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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