by Rich Patterson | Jun 29, 2018 | Family & Relationships, Parenting, Resilience
Helicopter Parents’ Concerns Helicopter parents are very protective or have an obsessive interest in their child’s life. As a retired high school administrator, I could recognize these parents quickly when I asked the child a question. Right away, the...
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 20, 2018 | Encouragement, Family & Relationships, Parenting
Deciduous Forest & Kids The deciduous forest is another component of the mature forest and often has dark and light timber. Dark and light timber means some Aspen, Birch, Poplar, and Red Maple trees scattered among other dark evergreen trees. The Aspen has a...
by Rich Patterson | Jun 8, 2018 | Achievement, Encouragement, Resilience
This Present Moment is Only Temporary Think back to when you were a kid and how long things seemed to last. Do you remember your holiday break in December? It seemed like it lasted a month or more when it was two weeks at the most. For our youth, time passes very...
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