by Rich Patterson | Dec 26, 2019 | Character, Family & Relationships
Photo by John-Mark Smith on Unsplash Decision Making Skills Do your kids have excellent decision-making skills? I don’t mean, do you think they can decide things. I mean have to deliberately sit with them and help them with several processes of making a...
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 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”...
by Rich Patterson | Dec 13, 2019 | Parenting, Resilience
Setting Rules & Enforcing Them Setting rules is one thing, but enforcing them is quite another. Sometimes we don’t feel like starting up with our kids to make a point. But wait! What is at stake when we don’t enforce the rules. The sign says,...
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