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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
June 6, 2018

Seeds and Swords: The Power of Our Words to Our Kids

This blog about the power of a parent’s words is the third post by guest-blogger, Julie Williams, who is a professional wordsmith and the mother of my kids.  We live in a world awash with words. They gush from our mouths and spill over our fingertips onto our keyboards. They seep into our ears and…

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Tag: inner-voice, power-of-words
February 20, 2016

Move your but: What you say becomes your child’s inner voice (pt 4)

Parent, move your but. ‘I love you, but…’  How many times I’ve uttered this, mistakenly thinking it will anchor my child before providing some constructive criticism… Eli, I love you, but you need to listen the first time my boy! Fynn, I love you, but never take something without asking. Ivy, I love you, but…

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Tag: power-of-words, unconditional-love
February 13, 2016

5 Questions to help you speak life-giving words to your child: What you say becomes their inner voice (pt 3)

I find it terrifying, but also dignifying, that I can shape who my child becomes – etching my influence and values into their deepest psyche. In my last two posts (click here and here),  I’ve shown that this is especially done through the words I speak or for that matter fail to speak. My words…

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Tag: power-of-words
February 5, 2016

The all-important voice of parents: What you say to your kids becomes their inner voice (pt 2)

‘The voice of parents is as the voice of gods.’ So says Shakespeare. I didn’t take him for much of a parenting expert, but on this aspect of raising kids, I have to agree with the old guy. Our words carry a kind of divine weight during our children’s early years… impressing something that will…

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Tag: inner-voice, power-of-words
January 26, 2016

Words work both ways: What you say to your kids becomes their inner voice (pt 1)

What you say to your kids becomes their inner voice. Perhaps, the most under-estimated dimension of my parenting is the words I speak, or don’t speak, to my children. Recently, back from his first day back at school, Fynn (5) proudly told Julie and I something that inspired this post… ‘Today, me and my fwiends…

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Tag: inner-voice, power-of-words

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