Parenting to develop confident kids

By / 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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What is Counselling Anyway? How can it help?

By / July 10, 2020 /

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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Wardrobe wars

By / July 10, 2020 / ,

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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Take the ‘fight’ out of your voice

By / July 10, 2020 / ,

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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