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What Your Preschooler Really Needs for Success

“The wonder of being a parent is the ability to see the world through new eyes.” Diane Flynn Keith is the Editor-In-Chief of Homefires.com, a website devoted to kindling a life-long love of learning and empowering parents around the world with the support and resources needed to help their children get a meaningful education at [...]

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How to Raise Your Children with the Self-Esteem and the EQ They Need to Thrive

    As both a mom and a Clinical Psychologist, Dr. Laura Markham sounds two clear themes in her advice to parents. The first is that when we feel good, we’re better parents. Quite simply, we can only give what we have inside. Her other theme is that parenting effectively always depends on our connection to [...]

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Focus, Choice and a Dead Battery

I wrote a few weeks ago about how common it is for kids to get the message that they are bad (see post here). If you are guilty of this, it isn’t because that is what you want your kids to think, it’s just that it is easy to get stuck focusing on all the [...]

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Beyond Praise: Building Character, Encouraging Positive Behavior and Increasing Resiliency

Because too much praise has a tendency to promote a focus on outward rewards, praise can undermine these very traits that we want to encourage. Often times, to do the right thing involves being able to behave based on our own internal beliefs and strength. Clearly the rampant problem with bullying and bystanders speaks to the fact that many kids are not developing their internal guidance system.

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Confessions of a (Sometimes) Workaholic and Perfectionistic Mom

If you caught my interview on The Parenting Summit, or you’ve read my blog for awhile, you know I am a recovering perfectionist. I love helping other parents reduce their perfectionism because this has been such a healing and joyful journey for me. I get to share with you the many techniques that I’ve learned [...]

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Great Parenting Course by Connected Parenting founder Jennifer Kolari

If you are like me, you probably sometimes feel that you’d like to be better connected to your kids. From working with developmental psychologist Gordon Neufeld, I’m very clear on the power of attachment to minimize discipline issues and get our children to automatically follow our lead and adopt similar values. However sometimes the nuts [...]

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Highlights from The Parenting Summit

The free replays came down this morning, Saturday at 9 am PST. Now those who purchased The Audio Owner’s Manual to Raising Great Kids are starting to download their favorite audios and discover great tips from the experts they missed. I’m looking forward to hearing more from you as you apply the tips you have [...]

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The Parenting Summit Interviews are Live!

Imagine getting the help you need to deal with your worries, fears and realities with raising your children. Parenting did not come easily for me at all, which is why I became a parenting educator so that I could learn more and find better approaches than I already knew. I created The Parenting Summit, in [...]

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The Parenting Summit is Open for Free Registration!

After a gestation period of over 6 months, the site is up, the speakers are confirmed, and registration is open! Click here if you want to register right away, or read on to find out more. You won’t want to miss this free online event. I’ve spent months finding speakers to cover a wide range [...]

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Meeting Lisa Nichols, Star of The Secret, on a Friday Night; Gifts of Love We Can Give to Our Children!

Last night, as I gathered with my friends prior to the teleseminar conference I’m at, Lisa Nichols, star of The Secret, walked in. I had called her office earlier in the week to ask her to be on The Parenting Summit that starts in 2 weeks. She does amazing work with teens, and has her [...]

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