A Different Kind of Checklist
Lately I’ve spent a lot of thought and writing on chores…the how, the why, the when, the importance. An underlying …
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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 …
How to We Help Kids LEARN Balance on Their Own?
In the last blog, we considered how parenting is like teaching a kid to ride a bike: lots of assistance …
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 …
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 …
The Green Bean Queen – Something Fun to Talk About on Spring Break!
“title=”Green Bean Queen”> (I’m posting this again because it makes me laugh and because it’s spring and because we all …
“YOU Like Me. You Really Like Me!”
“You like me. You really like me.” – Sally Field in her acceptance speech when she received an Oscar for …
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 …
