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Parenting to develop confident kids

By Nigel Pizzini / June 12, 2022 June 12, 2022

RAISING SUCCESSFUL KIDS I talked to 70 parents who raised highly successful kids—here are the 4 hard parenting rules that make them different Published Sat, Jun 11 202210:30 AM EDT Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/11/i-talked-to-70-parents-who-raised-highly-successful-adults-the-hard-things-they-did-differently.html Margot Machol Bisnow, Contributor SHAREShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via Email d3sign | Getty What is a …

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About COVID anxiety

By Nigel Pizzini / October 8, 2020 October 8, 2020

Cure or Con?

By Nigel Pizzini / June 15, 2020 July 10, 2020

Here you can download a really great article about Counselling:

What is Counselling Anyway? How can it help?

By Nigel Pizzini / June 12, 2020 July 10, 2020 / Understanding Ourselves

Here in New Zealand, the national professional association for counsellors is NZAC (New Zealand Association of Counsellors). As a professional body, it vets applications for membership against a rigorous professional standard. Anyone looking for a competant, professiona counsellor can reasonably assume that a NZAC member will have a high level of training, be professionally competant …

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Connecting Teens to the World

By Nigel Pizzini / June 26, 2017 July 10, 2020 / parenting, Understanding Teenagers

We tell our children from the day they’re born; ‘You’re special’, ‘You matter’, ‘You are so significant to me.’ Our words are important, but on their own they’re not enough to make our kids feel it and believe it. As they get older, our teens also need to know how and why they matter. Connections …

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Dealing with Prickly Teens

By Nigel Pizzini / June 26, 2017 July 10, 2020 / parenting, Understanding Teenagers

In many ways I experience parenting as “a long letting go”… as my child grows older, I find mysel ever so slowly having to let go more and more of making decisions for her, being in charge of her where-abouts, and filtering what she is exposed to. As children get older they move into more …

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Wardrobe wars

By Nigel Pizzini / June 26, 2017 July 10, 2020 / parenting, Understanding Teenagers

Whether it’s clothes, electronics, make-up or music, teenagers can be extremely territorial about their stuff, leading to spectacular bust-ups over who raided whose wardrobe or didn’t return something that they borrowed, and didn’t even have permission to borrow in the first place. As the parent you can: mediate endlessly, lose your patience, or encourage …

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How do I get my kids motivated?

By Nigel Pizzini / June 26, 2017 July 10, 2020 / parenting

Much of what we are required to do in life – including a huge amount of what children are required to do – cannot be described as “enjoyable” or “exciting”. Study, chores, being quiet, not picking your nose or not picking on your sister – where’s the fun in those? To do these behaviours requires …

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Discipline = Consequences – Anger

By Nigel Pizzini / August 18, 2016 July 10, 2020 / parenting

It’s a simple equation: Discipline = Consequences – Anger. But it’s nowhere near as simple to execute in real life. When children push our buttons and our boundaries, anger and frustration can be very difficult for a parent to suppress. Some words of truth to remind oneself of at such times, which can help …

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Take the ‘fight’ out of your voice

By Nigel Pizzini / April 12, 2016 July 10, 2020 / parenting, Understanding Teenagers

It’s easy to get into conflict with our kids. They ignore us, we raise our voices, they fight back etc. We, the big people, need to be strong, loving, flexible and available. And that might mean we need to take responsibility for our own frustrations, irritations or impatience rather than projecting it onto our kids …

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