Archive for April, 2005
Listening
All too often, when people say that they can’t communicate with their kids what they really mean is that they don’t know how to talk so that their kids will listen…
Original post by Mac Bledsoe, Founder of Parenting With Dignity
You can fake like you care, but you can’t fake being there!
In the lives of our kids it is often easy to become caught up in the hustle and bustle of daily life and forget to “show up” in our kid’s lives…
Original post by Mac Bledsoe
America Needs the Sound of Our Children Among Us
One of the real dangers of traveling around the country conducting conferences on parenting issues and writing articles like this one about parenting is that a person can begin thinking that he really is an expert…..
Original post by Mac Bledsoe, Founder of Parenting With Dignity
Heroes
In today’s society like in the past, kids have heroes. This is a good thing. However, in modern society it seems the process of selecting heroes has become rather muddled or confused….
Original post by Mac Bledsoe, Founder of Parenting With Dignity
Shaping kids lives with love
The single most powerful behavior-shaping tool at the disposal of parents is sending the constant and continual message of unconditional love…
Original post by Mac Bledsoe, Founder of Parenting With Dignity
Back When I Was a Kid
We must eliminate a few phrases when we are making decisions about how we will be raising our kids. They are the sayings like: When I was a kid…
Original post by Mac Bledsoe, Founder of Parenting With Dignity