by Rich Patterson | Jan 3, 2020 | Parenting, Resilience
What Kids Need: A Family with Love Number one with kids is a family that expresses love for each other. That makes for a comfortable and cozy place to be themselves that is peaceful. There is nothing like it and nothing that will replace such a protective cocoon for...
by Rich Patterson | Jan 1, 2020 | Parenting, Resilience
What Kids Need: Parental Boundaries It doesn’t take very long for kids to learn that they can break the rules without consequences. Parents help kids learn self-discipline and self-control when they set boundaries in the home and enforce them. As a high school...
by Rich Patterson | Dec 23, 2019 | Parenting, Resilience
Assertiveness Skills Kids can stick up for themselves and their beliefs. Those beliefs can be religious, where they draw the line with friends during those moments of decision. They can also include a choice they have made for themselves and are willing to stand up...
by Rich Patterson | Dec 20, 2019 | Parenting, Resilience
Adding Value to Others Since I often write about young people and how to help them with their lives, I say that I am thinking about helping kids learn about adding value to others. However, all of this applies to us as adults as well. Adding value to others involves...
by Rich Patterson | Dec 16, 2019 | Parenting, Resilience
Build These Into Kids A warm hello to all our parents out there. Today I want to suggest three things to build into your kids to enhance their success. They are Educational Aspiration, School Performance, & Achievement Motivation. Let’s start with...
by Rich Patterson | Dec 14, 2019 | Parenting, Resilience
A Warm, Caring Environment If you had a checklist of things that parents can do to help create resilience for kids, such as the checklist from Search-Institute.org, at the top of that list is, “I provide a warm, caring environment for my child at home”...
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