Don’t Bail on Yourself and Your Child’s Unique Inner Brilliance!

February 13, 2014 By Leave a Comment

You’re busy. I”d have to have my eyes closed not to see that. There’s feeding, clothing, cleaning, getting your kids out the door in the morning and to be at night, arranging play dates, showing up for sports events, managing the hurts and bumps of life.

Add to this taking care of yourself, which includes all of the above plus your career, staying healthy and in shape, your friends, your parents on both sides, time with your partner, taking care of your home.

I’m sure I left some things out here, but it’s easy to see why you’re often exhausted at the end of the day. These things seem to take all the bandwidth you have.

Yet there are some Big Picture Essentials not listed above: you and your child’s happiness and joy, the emotional connection you have with each of your children, your child’s self-confidence, social skills, her comfort in her own skin, his courage, compassion, and unique Inner Brilliance.

These provide the emotional environment and foundation, in which everything else happens.

When do you find time for these? If you’re like most parents, you keep meaning to get to them, to take some time to reflect and make some needed changes while days and weeks pass by unnoticed.

I believe these Big Picture Essentials are the most important place for us as parents and grandparents to keep our focus. They need to be our highest priority.

You know you’ll get your kids fed and you’ll make it out the door. It’s these Essentials that determine whether you do so joyously and easily or whether it’s a conflict or struggle.

If you’re ready to show up for these Big Picture Essentials, I invite you to be a part of my FR^EE  ‘Nurture Your Family Virtual Retreat’ this Saturday, February 15.

It’s only a two hour process with a short call at the beginning of each hour, in which I share information and exercises for you to do  the remainder of the hour. ..Two hours and you will have spent quality time with yourself, reflecting on what really matters for yourself and your family.

Of course, if you can’t be on the calls live, I will email you the audio links afterward.

We’d love to have you join us!

Click here to find out more and register.

 

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Play Dough ‘Ignited’ My Granddaughter!

February 11, 2014 By 2 Comments

I had the most wonderful experience with 3.5-year-old Madison yesterday that filled us both with such joy. In an email I received from The Artful Parent blog, I was reminded how much kids love play dough. Madi and I hadn’t played with it before, so I decided to make some with her.

After a pretty uneventful process of making it (she kept asking if she could taste it, remembering all the yummy things we have made previously!), we dumped all of it on a plastic tablecloth on the living room rug. Within moments, she began making a big, fat pancake with all of the dough and then folding it, every minute becoming more vibrant and animated.

Then she got the idea she’d like to cut it and ran into the kitchen to get ‘her knife,’ which cuts almost nothing but play dough. Together we made fudge and marshmallows, all of which had to be fed to her baby.

The entire time she was breathing more heavily than usual and sharing how much fun she was having. There was an intensity, a confidence, a certainty, a positive power I don’t think I’ve ever seen in her before, and she is not usually a cautious, held-back girl. She was passionately  ‘on fire’ and I was blown away.

Later when we got in the car, she told me, “Grandma, you are the most wonderful grandma I ever saw.” Said with heart-felt appreciation. The play dough was the perfect thing at the perfect time. I can hardly wait to play with her again!

Nurturing children’s Inner Brilliance is the most impactful, joyful gift we can give children, whether it looks like cutting play dough together, listening to their concerns or wants, or setting limits. When we focus on supporting our kids’ Inner Brilliance, we are on-track to bring out the very best in them.

If this is a priority for you also, I invite you to attend my FRE^E annual ‘Nurture Your Family Virtual Retreat’ where you’ll have the opportunity to explore ways you can nurture your child’s Inner Brilliance and create truly joyous relationships with him /her.

We’ll meet via a phone conference line and our three calls will be recorded.  By registering, you’ll be able to  get the recordings shortly after the retreat and listen and do the exercises at a convenient time for you.

Click here to find out more and to sign up.

Feel free to share this anyone whom you feel might be interested. Thanks so much for spreading the word!!

I’m sure you’ve had a similar, magical experience with a child.  Would you please share it with us ?

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Myth-Busting Bullying: The Heart and Soul of Bullying

September 20, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Do you ever stop to consider why kids do and say such mean things to each other? Most parents I talk with about this question shrug their shoulders and reply, ‘I don’t’ know” and dismiss them as ‘mean kids.’

If you’ve been following this series, you know the bully is not the ‘bad guy.’ I find when you simplify things to their most basic and most essential, you discover there are two underlying causes to the bullying trouble.

Here is the last in the series:

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Myth-Busting Bullying: Why Kids Do Such Mean Things

September 20, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Do you ever stop to consider why kids do and say such mean things to each other? Most parents I talk with about this question shrug their shoulders and reply, ‘I don’t’ know” and dismiss them as ‘mean kids.’

If you’ve been following this series, you know the bully is not the ‘bad guy.’ I find when you simplify things to their most basic and most essential, you discover there are two underlying causes to the bullying problem. I share these with you in the last two videos (each less than 5 minutes) of my series.

Here is the next to last one:

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Every Child is Vulnerable to Bullying

September 19, 2013 By Leave a Comment

I hope you’ve been enjoying my videos about bullying and that you’ve discovered new insights about some of the myths and causes of bullying.

You may believe that your child is doing fine socially and that bullying is unlikely to be a problem for her. Yet the painful truth is about 77% of children experience bullying of some kind -there are four different kinds – and almost 60% of children who are bullied never tell anyone, not even their parents.

Every child is vulnerable to being bullied. I see a few reasons for this.

First, as a human being, your child naturally needs and wants relationship and connection with others. Because of this, he is sensitive to how others treat him, what others think and say about him, whether that is kind and accepting or if it is abusive and shaming.

Secondly, your child may tolerate being abused to fit in and be included. Just to feel he has some connection with others. He may choose to give up his own power because of how he has learned to survive in relationship with others.

Thirdly, our society doesn’t really acknowledge or understand emotions very well. As parents, educators and society, we don’t know how to recognize emotional problems or how to respond. Almost everyone wrestles with finding emotional well-being. This applies to your child and everyone in his world. Thus, the possibility of an emotionally hurting child doing something abusive to your child.

As a parent who really wants to be a good parent, I know you want to do the very best for your child and to help him have the inner strength to either prevent being bullied or to respond to it in a way that empowers him.

In my teleclass next week “How to Bully-Proof Your Child and What to Do If It Happens,” you’ll learn how to help your child be:

  • so emotionally healthy and resilient he is not a good target. His feelings of internal power and self-respect are intact. He knows who he is, feels self-confident, and is not easily intimidated or belittled by others.
  • so emotionally strong and empowered within she have no need to bully others to prove herself
  • so connected to her own inner strength and compassion for others she make kind, courageous choices to be kind to others.

If you want this for your child, I invite you to join us next Wednesday, September 25 to discover new insights and tools to help your child be bully-proof from the inside out. This class is affordable and parent-friendly.

Click here now to sign-up or to get more info

Remember, even if you’re busy that night, you can still get this life-changing information for yourself and your child. The call will be recorded, and I will send the recording shortly after the class, plus a transcript of the call shortly a few days later.
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If you haven’t had a chance to watch the first five videos in the series, here are the links:

Myth-Busting Bullying: How Big a Problem Is It Really?

Myth-Busting Bullying: What’s It Really All About?

Myth-Busting Bullying:The Bully is Not the Bad Guy

Myth-Busting Bullying: These Strategies Don’t Work

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