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July 27, 2021

Unmasking Big Emotions in Little (and Grown-up) People

This article is by my co-blogger Julie, with whom I have at least five things (humans, actually) in common. While the global pandemic isn’t officially over yet, most of us (and our kids) have had to launch out of lockdown and hit the ground running again – this time, with masks on. While these masks…

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Tag: acknowledge-feelings, listening
September 27, 2019

How to Listen When Your Kids Speak So They Listen When You Speak

I can’t believe I am writing an article on listening! By nature I suck at it. So says my wife, and she should know. But in the last few years I have grasped what a liability that is – not just as a husband, but especially now that I am a dad! So I have…

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Tag: acknowledge-feelings, listening, responsive-listening
January 10, 2019

Helping Our Kids To Get Up Again – A True Story

One of the most difficult things for us parents to do is helping our kids to get up again when life and others knock them down. Yesterday I did my best to do just that for one of my boys. It was his first day back at school. Late yesterday afternoon he asked to do…

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Tag: acknowledge-feelings, belayer-parent, life-lessons, listening, power-of-words, responsive-listening
December 6, 2018

The Surprising Reason We Had Five Kids And Named Them As We Did

The Surprising Reason We Had Five Kids And Named Them As We Did Christmastime is the celebration of the gift of a Child. For a decade now, it is also a time when Julie and I are reminded that every child is a gift from God. In our case that’s five kids. Five gifts. Five…

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Tag: faith-and-family, listening, my-story
January 21, 2016

10 Super-practical ways to listen so your kids and teens talk (Pt 5)

Of course you love your kids. But how you express this love makes all the difference between them feeling loved or not. The same goes with listening. Of course we all listen to our kids. Of course we know how to listen – we think. But what if the way we listen has always been…

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January 9, 2016

How to not forget the unforgettable things your kid says: How to listen so your kids talk (Pt 4)

So many parents only capture their kid’s pictures, but forget to capture their words. Although listening is not my strong point, there’s one kind of listening that I’ve become good at – listening for the unforgettable things my kids say. About a decade ago, a seasoned parent told me, ‘Promise me this: when you have…

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Tag: humour, kids-quotes, listening
December 30, 2015

Ten things they’re saying you’re not listening for: How to listen so kids talk (Pt 3).

There’s ten things our kids say that we tend to miss because we aren’t listening for it. Our child’s squabbling, demands, cries, screeches, rants and raves have a way of forming survival filters in our hearing – which have the unintended effect of causing us to miss some amazing stuff they sometimes say. I’ve already…

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December 26, 2015

Listen to them or lose them: How to listen so your kids talk (Pt 2).

If we don’t listen to our kids, we may lose them. Here’s why. Previously I admitted that I suck at listening. With so much work required, is it really necessary that I do the hard yards of improving? We know we have ‘two ears and only one mouth’ but are there reasons of critical import…

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December 17, 2015

Why I suck at listening: How to listen so your kids talk (Pt 1)

I suck at listening. My wife has told me so 100 times – and that’s only the times I heard her say it. Before we had kids it was about my failure to listen to her. Now she says I often apply the same inept attentiveness to our little ones. I wouldn’t have believed her,…

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November 24, 2015

Tired of arguing with your child or teen? (Pt 2) Four steps to defusing their resistance

I’ve had enough of the constant challenges to my authority (I have 5 kids). But I also dread becoming a tyrant. Is there a better way than coming down strongly on my kids every time? Mysteriously (for low-EQ dudes like me at least) the more I validate my kid’s feelings of disagreement with my decision,…

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Tag: acknowledge-feelings, arguing-with-kids, authority, listening, overcome-resistance, responsive-listening

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