“I cannot think of one minute except maybe my shower in the morning,” responded one Mom when asked how much time she spent on herself each day and not working or caring for her children or husband. The expectations of a Mom’s role are frequently all-consuming and never enough. And those expectations likely come from …
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Category: Building a Positive Family Environment, Modeling Social and Emotional Skills, Practicing Social and Emotional Skills Tags: Confident mothers, Loss of self as mother, Mom and discipline, Mothers, mothers with agency, Roles of mothers, self-care, Self-sacrifice of Moms, Valentine's Day
Our Children And Teens Never Grow Too Old (or too cool!) to Need Connection With Us… We tend to recognize the fact that babies need lots of loving touches. We hold them against our skin. We carry them next to our heart. We soothe them by gently smoothing their hair or massaging their tiny hands …
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We tend to recognize the fact that babies need lots of loving touches. We hold them against our skin. We carry them next to our heart. We soothe them by gently smoothing their hair or massaging their tiny hands and feet. But as they grow, we may not consider how often we touch, how we …
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Category: Building a Positive Family Environment Tags: Hug campaign, intimacy, Kids and hugs, Parent-child loving touch, parents giving kids hugs, Positive touch, Sense of well-being, the power of touch, trust, Valentine's Day, valentine's day hugs
The coming of Valentine’s Day seemed an ideal time to write about one of the greatest, most enduring loves that has ever existed. No, I am not writing about Romeo and Juliet. This is about our love for our children and how we express it. There are moments in our lives when we feel like …
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Category: Building a Positive Family Environment, Modeling Social and Emotional Skills Tags: Active listening, Deep listening, Empathy, Expressing love, Expressing love to kids, Feeling words, Language of love, Language with children, Love and misbehavior, Metaphors and feelings, Parents expressing love, Parents love kids, Valentine's Day
This fire that we call loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls. – Aberjhani, Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love In honor of Valentine’s Day, I thought I’d write about our love for our children and their need for attention. Of course, all children have a need for us …
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Category: Building a Positive Family Environment Tags: Approval, Attention, Attention-seeking behavior, Children, Cooperative discipline, Developmental discipline, Difference between love and behavior, Focused attention, misbehavior, Misbehaviors, Positive Discipline, Teaching acceptable attention-getting, Unconditional love, Valentine's Day
I demonstrate open-hearted love, compassion and empathy with my granddaughter by being really and truly present with her. I think there is no better gift of love than to role-model complete presence with another. – Tom Rausch *Leadership Beyond Limits, LLC* Leader and Coach to Leaders http://www.linkedin.com/in/tomrausch http://twitter.com/tcrausch I agree with the need for complete …
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson As I work with E to diligently write the names of each of his class members on Valentine cards to celebrate the holiday this Friday, it raises a larger question. How am I …
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Love yourself first and everything else falls in line. – Lucille Ball There were so many interesting reader reactions to last week’s article on “Unconditional Love and Attention” that I felt it was important to take the issue one step further this week. One reader asked, “Isn’t unconditional love of self a pre-condition or critical …
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