Hang on, how can too much praise be a mistake? When raising my own three children, I wanted to praise them a lot, but even then I began to see that there is such a thing as too much praise. In his book, 12 Huge Mistakes Parents Can Avoid, author Tim Elmore addresses this idea…
12 Huge Parenting Mistakes You Can Avoid…Mistake #5: Rescuing Children
Rescuing children is okay when they are hurt or in danger, but not in everyday life. Being Super mom or dad is okay if you are not addicted to the rescue. This is #5 of a 12-part series on parenting mistakes. Here are the first four: Mistake #1: Parents not letting their kids fail Mistake…
12 Huge Parenting Mistakes You Can Avoid…Mistake #4: Inconsistency
This is #4 of a 12-part series on parenting mistakes. Here are the first three: Mistake #1: Parents Not Letting Their Kids Fail. Mistake #2: Parents Project Their Lives on Their Children, Mistake #3: Putting Too Much Emphasis on BEING HAPPY Today, we tackle Mistake #4: Inconsistency Parenting is the hardest job on the planet and…
12 Huge Parenting Mistakes You Can Avoid…Mistake #3: Putting Too Much Emphasis on BEING HAPPY
This is #3 of a 12-part series on parenting mistakes. Here are the first two: Mistake #1: Parents Not Letting Their Kids Fail. Mistake #2: Parents Project Their Lives on Their Children. Today, we tackle Mistake #3: Putting Too Much Emphasis on BEING HAPPY Your child’s happiness is important, but being happy should not be the…
12 Huge Parenting Mistakes You Can Avoid…. Mistake #2: Parents Project Their Lives on Their Children
This is #2 of a 12-part serious on parenting mistakes. Last week, we discussed Mistake #1: Parents Not Letting Their Kids Fail. This week: Mistake #2: Parents Project Their Lives on Their Children. Sit through any youth sports event and you are sure to hear a parent or two or three who are obviously trying…
12 Parenting Mistakes You Can Avoid
Although I’ve never met a perfect parent, I have met some who were pretty wise and I’ve learned a lot from watching them parent. And although my kids are grown, I’m always on the lookout for parenting wisdom from other sources. Even as a parenting and family life coach, I certainly don’t know it all!…
3 Ways to Victory Even When The Scoreboard Says it’s a Loss
I love to win, don’t you? Victory is just plain fun. I love it when my teams win (Go Dolphins! Go Hurricanes!) and I love it when my kids’ teams win. But in the world of sports–and life–there is always a winner and a loser and so your child will be facing a lot of…
Raising Leaders Starts HERE
There are two kinds of people in this world, leaders, and followers. As parents, we should want to be all about raising leaders, we should want them to be the ones who are doing the influencing instead of the ones being swayed by others all the time. Unfortunately, some people think that unless you are…
Why Winging-It is an Exhausting Parenting Strategy
What is your parenting strategy? Are you proactive or reactive? One makes life a huge gamble and leaves you scrambling; the other helps you be better prepared to handle the curve balls that life inevitably throws at you. The epidemic of living reactively has infected parenting and as a result has made the job of…
4 Parenting Mistakes that Nearly Tripped Me Up–and Might Make You Stumble Too
It’s way too easy for overloaded and overwhelmed parents to make parenting mistakes with their kids and even miss out on some amazing experiences, and it has nothing to do with how busy you are. It has more to do with how present you are. As I think back over nearly 32 years of parenting,…