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Wish I had a quarter. . . .

November 10, 2021

Although I have posted this before, I consider it a boy-parent-classic. Here it is again in case you and your …

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Gottas and Wannas – How to Persist When We Don’t Want To

November 3, 2021

Some decades ago Marlo Thomas and her friends recorded an album to help children learn about discarding sexual stereotypes. NFL …

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Teaching a Chicken to Play Baseball

March 20, 2021

We’ve been considering the benefits of having kids do chores. But what about the process? Let’s frame chores with the …

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How’re they going to learn?

March 12, 2021

When I was a teenager, my older brother had a friend named Mike who hung around our house a lot…like …

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A Perspective on Chores and Entitlement

March 6, 2021

I’m so pleased to count Kay Wyma as my friend, though to be honest, everyone who meets her would make …

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Person-praise or Process-praise? Fixed? Or Growth?

November 13, 2020

(photo from Unsplash, Tyler Nix) It seemed so SIMPLE. Your kid did well; high five! But have you noticed that …

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Wish I had a quarter. . . .

October 30, 2020

I don’t want to come across as dismissive, mainly because I’ve had middle school boys and I KNOW how it …

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The Year YOU WANT, 2019

January 15, 2019

There’s NOTHING magic about it. . . or IS there? It doesn’t matter which expert you read or which self-help …

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The Power of the Positive

July 10, 2017

Have you ever noticed that even if your kid does a dozen things right today, you notice, and more often …

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How do we help kids experience “post-traumatic growth?” Asset 1 (repost)

May 3, 2016

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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Kathleen Fischer

Kathleen is a popular speaker in corporate, church, and community settings as well as a sought after family/parenting coach for individuals and groups.

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