by Rich Patterson | Dec 13, 2019 | Parenting, Resilience
Setting Rules & Enforcing Them Setting rules is one thing, but enforcing them is quite another. Sometimes we don’t feel like starting up with our kids to make a point. But wait! What is at stake when we don’t enforce the rules. The sign says,...
by Rich Patterson | Dec 8, 2019 | Parenting, Resilience
Resilience in Kids: Clubs & Activities I have recently written about the benefits of kids being members of sports and music organizations and how they add resilience or Teflon coating to their lives. To help them when they face difficult times or when faced with...
by Rich Patterson | Dec 8, 2019 | Parenting, Resilience
Resilience in Kids: Doing Their Best As a parent, do you encourage your young person to do their best? Of course, most parents say yes, but I would beg to differ as a school administrator. So often, in a student-parent conference, parents would discover for the...
by Rich Patterson | Dec 8, 2019 | Parenting, Resilience
Resilience in Kids: Religious Programs We want our kids to make good choices, the choices they are faced with when we are not around. We want that for our kids, yet so many kids have no faith-based examples to follow in their lives. Today I want to say that...
by Rich Patterson | Nov 29, 2019 | Parenting, Resilience
Kids’ Involvement in School Sports In my previous postings, I have written about the benefits of kids’ involvement in arts programs, like the band, orchestra, choir, and other groups. Many of the same benefits carry over with kids’ participation in...
by Rich Patterson | Nov 27, 2019 | Parenting, Resilience
Kids’ Involvement in the Arts Is your young person involved in band, orchestra, or choir or takes lessons on a musical instrument? Research has shown that kids are interested in the arts, including theater, dance, literature, visual arts, and others. As a...
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