by Rich Patterson | Jul 15, 2019 | Families, Family & Relationships, Parenting Styles, Personal improvement, Positive behaviors, Questions, Relationships, Resilience, Resiliency, Self-Confidence, self-esteem, Summer Action Steps, Trust, Uncategorized, What kids need
What Kids Need: Family Support In this series, I will talk about what kids need in their life. What needs to be there for them to develop strong character and, reliable resiliency in their life? Today I want to talk about family support. Family support is critical...
by Rich Patterson | Jun 19, 2019 | Encouragement, Image, Questions, Relationships
Find Those Sparks Today I want to encourage you to find those sparks in young people. Sparks represent the goodness that is inside them. It is their gifts, their particular way of thinking, or their caring attitude, maybe it is just how they think. When you notice...
by Rich Patterson | Jun 10, 2019 | Families, Relationships, Setting Boundaries, Setting Limits, Teenagers
Setting Boundaries and Limits One of the most challenging assignments of being a parent is that of helping our kids to learn to set boundaries and limits in order to help them to guide themselves in a variety of circumstances. It is the one part that neither the...
by Rich Patterson | May 15, 2019 | Conversations, Encouragement, Leadership, Relationships, Struggle, Young Women
Helping Young Women As a teacher of many years, I have often noticed that so often young women retreat into silence as the more aggressive males in the classroom dominate the conversations. As adults, we are a part of various groups of youth that we either teach or...
by Rich Patterson | May 1, 2019 | Focus, Kids, Kids & Depression, Parenting, Positive Parenting, Relationships, Self-Confidence
Taking Time to Parent It sounds kind of funny to say, take time to parent. But often we get so busy trying to keep everything going that we forget to take some time with our kids to have a simple unstructured conversation, to ask some fun questions and hear their...
by Rich Patterson | Apr 1, 2019 | conflicts, Critical Thinking, Encouragement, Good Energy, Parenting Styles, Patience, Peace, Peacefulness, Relationships, resolving conflicts, Self-Confidence, Self-Improvement
Avoid Conflict There are many opportunities throughout a typical week to get into conflict with others. Sometimes they are right in front of us, say at a restaurant where you’ve just received poor service. Other times it may be while driving. Regardless,...
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