What You’ll Hear in This Episode When we think about all the things our children need to learn to grow up to be contributing good members of society, we usually think about the education they need to receive and master to be the adults they should become. But, for a minute, I’d like to suggest that teaching our children good manners is one of the most critical skills…
What You’ll Hear in This Episode Ep 62 – Monday Mindset – Being Intentional Being intentional in our lives is living with a conscious or deliberate path. It’s making the decisions about who you want to be and how you want to live BEFORE life happens and drags you through the day. When we’re not living with intention, we go through the motions of the day feeling like…
What You’ll Hear in This Episode: Thirty-five years ago I experienced mom guilt for the first time. My first baby was 10 months old and crawling towards a small bookshelf I had with some beautiful porcelain statues. I quickly approached her and slapped her hand (just hard enough to get her attention) and said, “NO!” and moved her away. She turned to look at me, bewildered (this was…
What You’ll Hear: I remember when I was a young mom, a friend of mine who also had a lot of children came to me to complain about how her children fought all the time. She couldn’t believe how my children always seemed to get along so well. She asked what we did, and I simply said, “There’s a zero tolerance in our family for disrespect.” Period. “You…
What You’ll Hear: As women, it’s not uncommon to get a little territorial about our children’s affection. We become Mama Bears – protecting our little ones from everything and everybody. Sometimes, without knowing it, even putting a distance between our children and their father. It’s a great gift to our children to teach them to respect and have affection for their father. Often men get so caught up…
What You’ll Hear in This Episode Whether we’re talking about our relationship with our spouse, the way we parent, or the how we keep our home, in order to be effective we need to attend to 3 tools in our lives: Our Knowledge or the what and the how Our Mindset And Our Why All three are required to progress toward living the life we’ve always dreamed of…
What You’ll Hear in this Episode: We need more people in the world who live with integrity. People who adhere to their upright values, strong morals and ethical principles without compromising. is the practice of being honest and showing a consistent and uncompromising adherence to strong moral and ethical principles and values. We can teach our children to live with integrity by holding them accountable for their actions…
What You’ll Hear in This Episode When I taught in the primary grades, I found that the children who excelled in learning to read, were the children whose parents read to them. It doesn’t have to be an hour. The Importance of Reading to Children Just 15-20 minutes a day of reading to your children increases their desire to learn to read, and make faster progress in actually…
What You’ll Find in This Episode Have you always wanted to be a genius? Guess what? In 1995, Pope St. John Paul the II identified women as possessing the feminine genius Not in the,”I can figure out that Rubix cube in 30 seconds” type of genius But in the peculiar, distinctive, or identifying character or spirit kind of way. It is in the very nature of who we…
What You’ll Hear in This Episode: I’d like to talk about a virtue that some might call old-fashioned. It’s modesty – Modesty seems to have negative connotations – we think of words like prude, goody goody, moralist, when we’re speaking about exterior modesty– not exactly an inviting offer to consider modesty. Yet the true definition of modesty is valuing our own privacy and respecting the privacy of others.…