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Don's parentwarrior Blog
http://parentwarrior.com/blog/
Don's Blog is part family session, part mental jujitsu and part storytelling. My web site, parentwarrior.com is dedicated to parent empowerment, leadership and change.
- Added on: Mar 30th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Don MacRae
- Listed in: Parenting Family
- Tags: parenting parenting help families parent tips troubled kids parent leadership
Recent Posts
Help!
It couldn’t be more perfect if it was a full-fledged conspiracy that had the singular purpose of keeping our children helpless. They simply cannot deal with the unpredictable, the uncharted, the unfamiliar. We have taken away their capacity...
Out of the Mouths of Babes
To their kids, dads are often bigger than life. They are influential in ways they might not be aware of… the following is a letter from a 10 year-old to his dad. “Dear Dad, I haven’t been acting to good the last couple of weeks. ...
Rah-rah-rah and Cooking
There is a lot of cliché advice out there but most of it is sanitized pabulum. It is the empty feel good stuff. You don’t have to think too much, you don’t have to do anything differently, you don’t have to do any heavy lifting...
The Power of Failure
The week before last I met with 9 teenagers and young adults. I offered them the opportunity of a lifetime. A full-time job for 47 weeks. The experience of building a new house from scratch with green technology and renewable energy application...
What is Behavior Change?
Worth another look… If I dress my dog up to look like a duck and try to get everyone to believe it’s a duck, it would be foolish. But every single day I work with kids who talk about how they have changed when in fact they have only tem...
Garbage Recycling
When parents finally get to parentwarrior, they have, more than likely, run the gamut of therapy for the children and themselves, medication trials, school interventions, self-help books and an assortment of other attempts and nothing has worked. N...
