Category: Child Rearing

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Peacemaker Coaching – Tip of the Week – Recognize Strengths

Everything takes energy -- yes even willingness to learn from your kids. Create a metaphorical colander to strain out unwanted energy drains. read more »
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Peacemaker Coaching – Tip of the Week – Crime & Punishment

By helping our kids understand how to create their options, we're helping them connect their actions – past and present – to their options – present and future. read more »
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A homeschooling carnival at Garden of Learning

Welcome to the November 28, 2012 edition of a homeschooling carnival. read more »
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Peacemaker Coaching – Tip of the Week – Don’t Land

Knowing what NOT to do solves a problem, knowing what to do instead creates a solution. read more »
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Crushed by Hurricane Sandy – She shook my image of reality

My teenage boys left me feeling alone in the dark when Sandy started to blow. read more »
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Peacemaker Coaching – Tip of the Week – Accountability Cop-Out

Maybe your kids are REALLY responsible to remember their homework after all. Have you officially turned it over? read more »
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Peacemaker Coaching – Tip of the Week – Asking the Right Questions

We promise to teach our kids how to love and be loved. By demonstrating the ways in which the right questions are asked, we are demonstrating how to express genuine… read more »
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Peacemaker Coaching – Tip of the Week – Turn It Over

A 4-step method I’ve used successfully as a life coach, fitness coach, and as a parent. It’s simple and works. read more »
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Got Kids? Take 2 Aspirins

I thought I knew how it would play out. I approached parenthood as if it were a set of skills I needed to learn. WRONG! read more »
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Peacemaker Coaching – Tip of the Week – Time To Go

The wisest choices are based on personal desire. It can be easy to misinterpret desire for obligation. If we continue to intervene, how can anyone know which is which? read more »
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Peacemaker Coaching – Tip of the Week – Breakfast Hero

Heroes clarify and define the values we choose for ourselves. Parent-heroes shape a child's character. read more »
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Bribing Kids – The Currency of Power (Everyone has a price)

Incentives work if you bait the hook properly. You can get almost anyone to do almost anything for the right price. read more »
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AMERICA’S NEWEST TREND: ALCOHOLIC ENEMAS ~ Insane Asylum Blog (@insaneasylmblog)

Kids will do anything to get drunk read more »
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Raising Multiples: Triplets, Twins and a Single…Life Is Crazy!

4:06pm is a pinnacle moment at my home. The bus drops off my older three and the triplets are getting up from their naps. I do more in that one… read more »
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5 Things Every Geek Dad Should Teach His Kids

Your geeky passions may not seem like they have much to do with your kids other than sharing your love of movies and books, but geekiness may just be the… read more »
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New Junk Research Used to Condemn Shared Parenting in Australia

A highly questionable study by a student researcher from the University of Ballarat has apparently found that Shared Parenting is bad for children. read more »
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How to Create Children’s Activities Based on Books

More than just interesting images and amusing stories, it’s also possible to create educational games and activities based on children’s books. read more »
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Rare Case of Court Action Against Mother with Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy

TO the outside world she was a loving mum who had a very sickly young son. But after 115 New South Wales hospital visits in three years, she has been… read more »
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