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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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…

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

The astonishing scientific connection between love, parenting, brain development, education and poverty.

The other day a perfect stranger helped me understand the astonishing scientific connection between love, parenting, brain development, education and poverty. And what it means for parenting my kids to greatness, and helping the most vulnerable in our country. I was MCing an event where critical development-based research was being released when an elderly man…

Tag: brain-development, responsive-listening, south-africa, unconditional-love

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,…

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

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

Helping Our Kids To Get Up Again – A True Story

The astonishing scientific connection between love, parenting, brain development, education and poverty.

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

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