World Peace Begins at Home...Right?
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I would ask you to please share this far and wide. Child abuse prevention cannot happen without a huge effort. Please join me. Thank you.
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Child Abuse Prevention Month...Day 17. "How Will You Remember?"
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In the heat of an extremely tense moment...when you are feeling stressed out, at your wit’s end, like you’re just about to explode… When you feel like you have No More Capacity for patience…
...Asking this important question and remaining alert for a good answer...and taking the steps it takes to create a durable plan (and, recognizing when it needs to be refined and being willing to go back to the drawing board), that's how you turn an ideal into a workable reality.
Read MoreChild Abuse Prevention Month...Day 16 - What do you *have* to do?
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This is germane to peaceful parenting and preventing child abuse because we hold and made decisions based on the stories we believe about what we have to do, which could prevent and interfere with much of the spontaneous joy our children wish to bring to us!
Read MoreChild Abuse Prevention Month...Day 15...Pivoting (Part 2)...How Do You Know?
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Yesterday, we talked about pivoting when you find yourself to be out of alignment with your own parenting ideals. But, in the heat of the moment, how do you know?
Read MoreChild Abuse Prevention Month...Day 14...The Power of Pivoting.
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...even when we know that’s not what we want to do, we get started down that path, and now we think we’re committed to that path. Things deteriorate.
Or…
Read MoreChild Abuse Prevention Month...Day #13. What About Lying?
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Lying is NOT the disease; it's a symptom. Take heed.
Read MoreChild Abuse Prevention Month...Day #12. Safety! It's all about safety.
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What it means to be someone's safe person.
Read MoreDid you know...
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..that there are two Making the Shift to Peaceful Parenting classes starting up next week? Well, it's true.
Read MoreChild Abuse Prevention Month...Day 11. Expectations...
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...expectations can be major friction points in any relationship. In a parent-child relationship, friction points can cause an all-out firestorm. This kind of firestorm is actually quite preventable...
Read MoreChild Abuse Prevention Month...Day 10. "What are you trying to tell me?!"
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This approach may take extra effort and patience on a parent's part, but it is time well spent in that it builds connection and defuses potentially volatile situations. The connection this approach builds is cumulative and things just get better and better and better.
Read MoreChild Abuse Prevention Month...Day #9. To Prevent Child Abuse....
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Holding others in kindness and compassion can be much more effective than....
Read MoreChild Abuse Prevention Month...Day #8. Controlling Whom?
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What you need to know about control.
Read MoreChild Abuse Prevention Month...Day #7. Seeing and Hearing
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When children behave the worst...that's when they need our love the most.
Read MoreChild Abuse Prevention Month...Day 6. We Believe.
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...your parenting legacy... (yes...it's that big!)
Read MoreChild Abuse Prevention Month...Day #5. R-E-S-P-E-C-T
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Respect is another excellent lubricant in the parenting tool kit. Make liberal use of it, and you will enjoy your time with your kids for a lifetime!
Read MoreChild Abuse Prevention Month...Day #4. Strap on that oxygen mask!
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Taking good care of yourself emotionally, physically, mentally, and spiritually is a gift you give not only yourself but also your kids. For real!
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Making the Shift Classes Starting Monday, April 6
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These are nuts-and-bolts, practical classes. The classes allow the participants to change their lives. If you are a parent who has ever uttered "I am at my wit's end," please consider taking this class. Your happiness and your children's happiness are too important to keep putting this off.
Read MoreQuestion Is the Answer!
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...your belief in your thoughts is what ruined your day. You picked a perspective, a story, and you bought it, and the expense of that purchase was your happiness.
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