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Can parents avoid making kids angry?
The Bible tells fathers not to irritate and provoke their children to anger (Ephesians 6). Children are naturally selfish, undisciplined and irrational. They want to play all the time, they don’t want to share, and they rarely act rationally. I...
Improve communication with your teenagers
Do you find it hard to connect with your teens? Is the “teenage angst” just a stage of life with your teen that you have to live with, or is there something you can do about it? My podcast is an interview with teen expert Aurelia Williams...
Improving communication
“My kids don’t talk to me.” One of the main components of a relationship is communication. Ask any marriage counselor and they’ll say that lack of effective communication is one of the biggest problems in marriages. You’...
Talking about life
In the course of the day, with meals to cook, messes to clean up, and homework to do, it seems inappropriate to talk to your children about those deeper issues of life. Yet, as days and months pass, pants get outgrown and the training wheels are off,...
Parents on Facebook
When Facebook.com opened up for anyone to join, several Facebook groups “against parents on Facebook” popped up with hundreds of members. It seems that the college students for whom the site was geared did not want to have their parents o...
Responding or reacting to your child
I have this tendency to jump on my children and lecture them. Yesterday, my daughter came home and says, “I’m tired.” This seemingly innocent remark set me off! “You probably didn’t eat your lunch. You didn’t even ...
Making deposits into your child’s emotional tank
I believe it was Gary Smalley who taught that everyone has an emotional tank. We function at our best when our emotional tank is full. Here’s how it works. When an emotional need is met, our tank gets a “deposit.” It fills up a bit....
5 things parents do that annoy their kids
My mother-in-law often says, “If you treat people well, they will treat you well.” Do we want our kids to obey us, respect us, and be civil to us? Then we have to do our part not to annoy our children. Of course, if I am doing the right t...
Become genuinely interested in your kids
“My kids talk for hours with their friends, but they don’t tell me anything!” Communication problem? Generation gap? The problem is actually an occupational hazard of being a parent. Since day one of our children’s lives, we&...
Arouse in the other person an eager want
This is our pet bunny Smokey. When we tell her to come, she doesn’t come. When we tell her to jump, she doesn’t jump. But when we dangle a carrot a front of her, she’ll go anywhere the carrot leads! Dale Carnegie tells this sto...
Give honest and sincere appreciation
When I am shopping, I like to give a compliment to the clerks. I look hard for something to give a sincere compliment. “That’s a nice necklace you have on” or “I like that color of nail polish on you.” My ulterior moti...
Don’t criticize, condemn or complain
What do we say to our children when they make an ugly face or cross their eyes? “Your face and eyes are going to get stuck that way!” In the same way, we can get into a habit of being negative and critical of our children that we get st...
