by Rich Patterson | Jan 10, 2020 | Family & Relationships, Parenting
Building Trust One of the biggest compliments you can receive is someone saying, “I can count on you.” That means that they trust you, that you will be there when they need you. What a fantastic accolade that you earn by being fully present every day. It...
by Rich Patterson | Dec 27, 2019 | Family & Relationships
Friendship-Making Skills The Search Institute (search-institute.org) talks about the importance of kids knowing how to make and keep friends. Do your kids have that skill? Are they good at forming positive relationships? To what types of friends are they naturally...
by Rich Patterson | Dec 26, 2019 | Character, Family & Relationships
Photo by John-Mark Smith on Unsplash Decision Making Skills Do your kids have excellent decision-making skills? I don’t mean, do you think they can decide things. I mean have to deliberately sit with them and help them with several processes of making a...
by Rich Patterson | May 30, 2019 | Family & Relationships, Parenting
Parenting & Child Development Parenting affects how kids grow up in so many ways. It might be how they choose to handle a complex, stressful situation or spend time with their kids reading. The kids are always watching and learning to model just how their...
by Rich Patterson | May 22, 2019 | Character, Encouragement, Family & Relationships
Holes In Your Heart We are all incomplete in a sense. I mean, we are always a work in progress. A friend called them “Holes In Your Heart.” That phrase stuck with me because, in so many ways, we all have holes in our hearts. They may come from...
by Rich Patterson | Apr 15, 2019 | Communication, Family & Relationships, Parenting, Resilience
Talk About the Positives As I look back on my life, I realize that most of what I was concerned about either didn’t happen at all or that everything turned out fine, even if it wasn’t as I wanted it to be. We can commend ourselves for choosing the...
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