Category: Parenting

The Power of Embracing Failure in Resilience Parenting

Discover the power of embracing failure in resilience parenting and how it helps children develop essential life skills. Learn how to create a safe space for failure, teach resilience through setbacks, and model resilience as a parent to prepare children for future challenges with confidence....

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...

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...

Gratitude – the Cure for Entitlement

I would like to begin by dispelling a myth about gratitude. We do not teach our children about gratitude for the development of their good manners. I believe as much in good manners as anyone–probably more than most. However, in sooth, we teach our children about gratitude because it...