Parenting on Purpose: Display Your Personal Best

Parenting on Purpose: Display Your Personal Best In the past few days, we’ve been talking about the choice we have to ignore our circumstances and choose to be our best.  Today I would like to offer, Display Your Personal Best.  When things start to close in...

Parenting on Purpose: It’s in the People

It’s in the People Parenting our kids requires constant calibration.  I mean, it seems like we’re constantly adjusting, catching, cautioning, checking, reassuring, helping, pushing; the list is endless.  In the blog on 08/13/18, I wrote about Focusing on...

Parenting on Purpose: Focus on Energy

Parenting on Purpose: Focus on Energy The voice on the phone said to me, “You’re so positive!”  I thought to myself, wow, she can tell just from one sentence.  She further said that she gets so few positive calls that she immediately could tell that...

Parenting on Purpose: Attitude

Part One. Parenting on Purpose: Attitude On his word of the day, John Maxwell focused on Parenting and, precisely, attitude.  I like what John said when he said that attitude was one thing that he and his wife Margaret wanted to be sure that their kids understood.  He...

Send The Message Once

  Send The Message Once Often when we have a problem or a difficult circumstance, we may turn to friends, faith, or a significant other and ask for help.  Exercising belief is essential to teach our kids, and ourselves, to send a message once.  It shows a lack of...