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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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Tag: listening
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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Tag: listening
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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October 26, 2015

The ultimate secret to parenting

Of course there are many dimensions to parenting – all of them critical – but one stands head and shoulders above the rest. It towers so far above the other principles that it deserves to be called The Secret to Parenting. Let me tell you a story of when Eli was three to illustrate what…

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