What are words for when no one listens anymore?
As children we were lied to. Does this sound familiar? “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.” I don’t know about you but while I never wound up in the hospital over harsh words I certainly wound up feeling a lot of pain...I gave them everything and it wasn’t enough (are you sure?)
When someone who is divorced challenges Anthony Robbins by saying, “yes, but I gave them EVERYTHING,” Tony is known to respond by saying: “yes, everything but what they needed.” The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts by Gary...Just get me through 7th grade
Middle school is a tough time in a young man’s life. Recently, a popular television show on the Disney Channel, Good Luck Charlie, captured the middle school experience perfectly. In the episode Bob Duncan (played by Eric Allan Kramer), the family patriarch, is...My kid can’t sit still – does that mean he will be a serial killer?
Have you ever noticed that boys seem to be constantly in motion? They can’t sit down for more than six seconds at the dinner table before they are up and moving, and always seem to be going some direction, or fidgeting or generally trying to be any place other...Hulk SMASH!
As I was preparing to write this post tonight I was also getting the kids to bed when I was confronted by the frightening image you see posted here. This is a boy. A boy wants to be a force to reckon with and if that means wearing a Sith Lord mask, a Hulk fist while...Peaks and Valleys
As anyone who is ever read any of Spencer Johnson’s work knows that whatever the topic of the book is is not literally what it’s about. It is always a metaphor for a mental change that you need to make. Peaks and Valleys: Making Good and Bad times Work for...Never pass up a chance at a memory
As kids get older, the National Bank of Dad dynamic will likely change. Kids will want more money for more stuff and for more expensive stuff. Plus, they will be old enough to have their own actual bank account, and usually by the time they are 12 they are asking for...Don’t buy stuff you cannot afford
Part of teaching our kids financial intelligence is letting them make mistakes and live with the consequences of their decisions. We have to do this as adults (unless you’re a politician, then you can blame someone else), so our kids should learn it as well and...You’ll get nothing and like it
It doesn’t really take kids that long to grasp the concept of money. They see you pull money out to buy things and quickly figure out that your money can buy things for them. But for the National Bank of Dad (or mom and dad, or mom, or whatever) to work, your...
