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Leadership Activities for Children

  The best time for us to teach leadership skills is when our children are young. This can be done through a variety of different activities. Teaching these skills early on is critical. They will help our children improve their self-esteem and as they get older (especially during those dreaded teenage years) they will be less likely to give in to peer pressure as they will not rely the approval of others. These leadership skills will also be invaluable later in life as well.more

Positive Influences

  Children learn a great deal through watching and imitating others; however, there is no shortage of negative role models in today’s society.  Both children and teenagers spend a lot of time in front of video games, television, and the Internet - which don’t necessarily advertise family values in every situation.  more

5 Tips on Discipline

  In my previous blog I talked about setting boundaries for your kids and sticking to them. In that blog I mentioned parenting children with different personalities and promised to discuss that topic a little further. So here we are…

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Set Firm Boundaries

  One of the biggest challenges as a parent is knowing how to discipline your child. First of all, each child is very different and you may need to adjust your discipline philosophy based upon the personality of that child but we will get to that more in a future post.

The biggest mistake that most parents make is that they are not consistent with their children. Basically, many parents will talk tough but then do nothing to enforce the rules.more

Stop Being Their Friend

  In today’s world of parenting, it seems as if children have started raising themselves. It seems that parents never want to upset their children and as a result they just continually give in to their child’s every want and desire. This is happening from a very early age which is why so many parents are having problems with their teenagers.more