The Hotpot of Covid Homeschooling and Balancing Challenges
Shonda Belton, CQP, is the kind of interviewer with whom one instantly feels at ease. So join us for a laugh as we talk about the difficulty of jumping into a hotpot of homeschool—covid style—and finding a good balance of challenges when the world is sometimes challenging enough. About...
Flexing Your Resilience Muscle – Even When It Hurts
Resilience is like a muscle. Develop it, and it will serve you when you need it most. Ignore it, and it will atrophy. We talk a lot about teaching children to be strong, adaptable, and able to recover. But what about maintaining our resilience as parents? I started training...
Encouraging Adventure and Distinguishing Between Wants and Needs With Dr. Doug
Conversations are built with questions. And great conversations are built with great questions. Dr. Doug has a delightful penchant for asking insightful and challenging questions in order to provoke new ideas and better ideals. He encourages his listeners to create lives that inspire vision and elevate the lives of others. “It’s...
A Little Bit of Failure Goes a Long Way
Sometimes the most challenging part of talking about parenting is knowing where to start. It recalls the story about the older fish commenting on the water and the younger fish responding, “What is water?” As parents, everything we do is part of the work of parenting–or perhaps more simply,...
We Build Our Life from the Little Things
Thirty years hence your child will be off in the world doing big important things. They will be living their lives depending on the wisdom and strength that they drew from their childhood with you. If that reality doesn’t hit you just a little bit, you’re built of sterner...