All parents become parents for the first time each time they welcome another child into their family. Unfortunately, we must learn as we go as best we can. We must learn how to parent from the beginning because your children are not the same as you and each child is
Continue readingLet’s give some attention today to parent-child bonding. We’ve already discussed some points that are critical to parenting success. Parent-child bonding would be at the top of the list. Let’s review: We must understand each other in order to have successful relationships. Bonding cannot be achieved by the parent. The
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Parents are frustrated and hurting with the challenges of the current dysfunctional culture. It’s dysfunctional because it contradicts itself. Furthermore, it encourages our youth to believe in an angry, self-centered, and crooked (read “unthinking”) way of living. And it claims all people must be tolerant of others, but then it
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How often do you identify difficult people as the source of your stress? If you’re a parent (to kids ages birth through 50 or even older), part of an organization, a person with a job, or just a person who talks to other people, you’ve likely done that as recently
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Most parents are the experts on their children’s behavior. They know if little Megan is acting normally or acting up. But what they don’t know is how she feels when she obeys or disobeys. Why did she throw that tantrum and kick her mommy? Why did she, only one hour later,
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by Janet Kellogg The second Genius Parenting Move requires you to make a major shift of focus away from your child’s behavior onto the beliefs driving their behavior. We never do anything unless we believe we should do it. And if you agree that this is a good move, we’ve created
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by Janet Kellogg The first and perhaps most important move toward becoming a “Genius Parent” is your enrollment in the “School of Inner Design.” Have you ever had that dream where you suddenly realize you haven’t gone to class all semester, you have no idea what’s been taught, and it’s
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by Janet Kellogg How often does your child give you “that look”? You know . . . the look that says, “Do you have any idea what you are doing right now?!” I often have to remind myself that whatever their ages, whatever my age, whatever parenting stage we are
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by Janet Kellogg Of all the activities you could focus on as a parent, which one affects your child’s future the most? Each of our kids could not be more different in the way they think, feel and act in any given situation. So, we know that no “cookie cutter,
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