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 | 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...
by Rich Patterson | Jul 16, 2018 | Family & Relationships, Parenting, Resilience
Bad Habits that Hurt Kids As an educator, I have to admit that sometimes I spent with parents didn’t make sense. I might have a student in my office for fighting or something as severe, and when the parent comes to school upon my request, they support...
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...
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