Posts Tagged "books"
Motivation Formula & How to Use It – Part 1
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When my daughter Betsy was in middle school, she told me through a flood of tears that she was sure she had no self-motivation. She couldn’t make herself do things she didn’t want to do. Yep, that’s the message I’d inadvertently been sending: making yourself do things you don’t want to do IS self-motivation. Of course, I was applying it to myself as well, and it led...
Read MoreToo Fun to Leave — Not Fair!
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Is it fair to put kids in difficult situations and then expect them to behave? Here’s what Leigh from Albany asked: My older son (who is 4) was dazzled by the bookstore. We had never been there before. We went because there was a story time, but he was way too amped to sit for the story. We went with a friend who has a son my younger son’s age (19 months old). My older son ran...
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