by Rich Patterson | Feb 14, 2020 | Personal Improvement
Train Your Perceptions – 2 We have been talking about modulating your emotions, monitoring them to reduce the intensity and length of an emotional outburst, mainly as applied to anger. Another tool of Executive Function is focusing, shifting of attention of...
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 | Aug 26, 2019 | Parenting, Resilience
What Kids Need: Good Influence Positive influence seems like a no-brainer; however, often, we aren’t fully aware of who our kids are spending time around. We know that the company that we keep influences us, but do we know details about our kids’...
by Rich Patterson | May 17, 2019 | Personal Improvement
Our Mirror Self Mirror, mirror on the wall, so goes the line in the 1937 Disney classic, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. It’s both “Mirror, mirror, on the” wall” AND “Magic mirror, on the wall” by the way, I want to suggest that...
by Rich Patterson | Mar 29, 2019 | Encouragement, Personal Improvement
Hold Your Image Your image is important! I mean, right now, at your kids’ tender young age, it is essential. We have seen people who earn a golden opportunity later in life only to have something from their childhood or early adulthood show up and dismiss that...
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