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Using Our Child’s Strengths and Challenges To Succeed

We can change our lives for the better right now! It starts with looking at the strengths and challenges in our daily life. Through our challenges, we can understand the patterns that keep repeating and the self-limiting tapes running in our sub-conscious. Our strengths can inspire us to rise over these repeating patterns and tapes,…
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Delayed Gratification in the Entitlement Generation

Being a teenager is about living in the now. This is a double-edged sword. We spend our whole lives trying to live in the now and give our teens grief for doing it way too much. The main difference is that we have the experience and they have the conviction. In the late 1960’s, a…
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Stress – A Good Thing or …Not?

What? Stress? A good thing? I’m here to tell you... Stress is good! It’s what you don’t do with it, that makes it bad. As a very dear friend of mine often says: “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional” It’s easy to say, “well, they don’t know My stress”! Whatever stress you are going through…
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Getting Your Child Organized – 10 Tips to Tame Homework

Why bother? I won’t need it in “real life”. This is the question heard over and over again in bedrooms, school hallways and principals waiting rooms for as long as there has been chalk. No one can tell you what will help you subject-wise in the future but the one thing I can guarantee you…
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