Wish I had a quarter. . . .
Although I have posted this before, I consider it a boy-parent-classic. Here it is again in case you and your …
Category Archives: improving effort
Gottas and Wannas – How to Persist When We Don’t Want To
Some decades ago Marlo Thomas and her friends recorded an album to help children learn about discarding sexual stereotypes. NFL …
Teaching a Chicken to Play Baseball
We’ve been considering the benefits of having kids do chores. But what about the process? Let’s frame chores with the …
How’re they going to learn?
When I was a teenager, my older brother had a friend named Mike who hung around our house a lot…like …
A Perspective on Chores and Entitlement
I’m so pleased to count Kay Wyma as my friend, though to be honest, everyone who meets her would make …
Person-praise or Process-praise? Fixed? Or Growth?
(photo from Unsplash, Tyler Nix) It seemed so SIMPLE. Your kid did well; high five! But have you noticed that …
Wish I had a quarter. . . .
I don’t want to come across as dismissive, mainly because I’ve had middle school boys and I KNOW how it …
The Year YOU WANT, 2019
There’s NOTHING magic about it. . . or IS there? It doesn’t matter which expert you read or which self-help …
The Power of the Positive
Have you ever noticed that even if your kid does a dozen things right today, you notice, and more often …
How do we help kids experience “post-traumatic growth?” Asset 1 (repost)
Recently we shared Dr. Marti Seligman’s research on post-traumatic stress, a project which called attention to the fact that many soldiers …
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