Posts Tagged "strengths"
Success Training, Not Micro-Managing
Our friend Rachel Macy Stafford's post, The Manager in My Home & the Five Words that Changed Everything, documents her shift from micro-managing to empowering her daughters. She requested my assistance when dozens of questions flooded in from parents all over the world about how to put perfectionism aside and provide guidance without micro-managing and criticizing. One of the points I made...
Read MoreDoes Fair Mean Equal?
Ever since we were little, my older sister Colleen has been concerned with "fairness." She was aware of every discrepancy between the two of us, from the amount of attention we got from our parents to the number of apple slices we each had on our plates at snack time. Since we were a Language of Listening® household, my parents used Success Training to turn this hyper-awareness into a...
Read More“You nearly hit her!”
I practically jumped up and down with excitement when I received this story from a mother in Ireland: One of my friend’s children (age 7) has the label put upon him that he is "not nice." Well I’ve been working hard on his strengths when we’re together to show him how nice he is! His face lights up and I receive endless hugs. I want him to see how "nice" he truly is. He was racing his...
Read MoreSiblings: Friends or Foes?
My sister and I (pictured) have always been best friends. Even as children, we never fought as often or as bitterly as I saw in my friends' households, or as a babysitter now in clients' homes. When I mentioned this smugly to my mother, Sandy, she responded matter-of-factly, "I did that deliberately." She told me that when she saw us arguing, she would approach the mediation from a space of "You...
Read MoreChildren Don’t Back Away; They Back Up for a Running Leap
You’re in the park with your two children watching the water trickling along a small stream. Your toddler’s eyes gleam as you take his hands and jump him over it. “Again, again!” he cries completely delighted with his success. Meanwhile, your kindergarten daughter sees a wider place downstream, backs way up to take a running leap, and... Where do they learn that? Children seem to innately...
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