Lily and the Bee Sting: Don’t Take It Personally

This one by my wife, Julie Williams I was chatting with a friend of mine the other day and she shared this sweet story of her niece… Lily, aged 4, got stung by a bee. Like any self-respecting 4-year-old, she proceeded to wail. Then after the initial shock and sting had subsided, Lily continued to…

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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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What We Did When Our Kids Threw Mud Balls At The Elderly Lady Next Door

‘Wow, what a life lesson was that!’ said Eli to Chris and I as we walked back from the neighbours which he and 3 other kids had bombed. The drama had started an hour earlier. My 3 oldest kids had climbed over my neighbour’s wall using the ladder-play-gym system Chris (my neighbour) and I had…

Tag: life-lessons, misbehaviour

How My Wife Prepares Our Kids For Life’s Difficulties

How My Wife Prepares Our Kids For Life’s Difficulties One goal of parenting is to prepare your child for life’s road. (Not, as so many thoughtlessly do, to try prepare the road for your child.) I don’t know if you agree, but the more our decades tick on, the more we tend to find ourselves…

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8 Invaluable Life-lessons To Teach Our Kids (And To Live By Yourself)

I believe that, for boys especially but girls too, the best classroom is outdoor adventure. Adventures serve up many teachable moments. That’s because they are a microcosm of life – the kinds of things that go wrong or come up mid-adventure are the kinds of things that do so in the decades of life. Adventures also…

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Lily and the Bee Sting: Don’t Take It Personally

Helping Our Kids To Get Up Again – A True Story

What We Did When Our Kids Threw Mud Balls At The Elderly Lady Next Door

How My Wife Prepares Our Kids For Life’s Difficulties

8 Invaluable Life-lessons To Teach Our Kids (And To Live By Yourself)

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