Recent Posts Tagged With relationships

• Nagging Your Kids

  Posted on Thursday February 4th, 2010 at 07:56 pm in relationships, children, kids, communication, parenting, focus, happiness, motivation, self esteem, self confidence, choice, behavior

  Last year, I wrote a post about the 8 worst ways to treat your kids. I get comments on my posts - some of them support my views, while some of them disagree or challenge the ideas I write about - and this post was no different. You probably know that...

• Like a Dog

  Posted on Sunday January 31st, 2010 at 09:05 pm in relationships, personal development, communication, how to, parenting, focus, happiness, lifestyle, motivation, Personal Growth, self improvement, change

  Dogs are really simple creatures. Whatever they do, they give it EVERYTHING. If you have ever seen a dog happy, you know they are happy with their whole body - they wag their tail like crazy, they jump around, the breath excitedly, lick every part of...

• Pay it Forward

  Posted on Thursday January 28th, 2010 at 07:25 pm in relationships, personal development, communication, inspiration, focus, happiness, Spirituality, Personal Growth, self improvement, choice, emotional intelligence, projection

  It was 4pm and I finished packing my presentation after running a full day of professional development for teachers. I taught a group of 40 teachers the importance of touch and planting good and happy seeds in their students' minds. As I packed, ever...

• Love, Actually

  Posted on Tuesday January 26th, 2010 at 09:26 pm in relationships, children, kids, love, communication, how to, parenting, motivation, family matters, emotional intelligence

  If you have ever tried to explain something to someone, you know the power of examples. They also say, "A picture is worth a thousand words" and that is almost always true. So today, I will use a picture (a scanned image, really) as an example of a g...

• What are you made of?

  Posted on Sunday January 24th, 2010 at 10:55 pm in relationships, parenting, video, inspiration, focus, motivation, Vision, choice, attitude, acceptance, family matters, persistence

  From time to time, being so involved with parents and parenting, people send us stories and video clips about special parents who truly go above and beyond what most people would do for their kids. It makes me wonder about what parents are made of. ...

• Take a Chance

  Posted on Tuesday January 12th, 2010 at 07:55 pm in relationships, personal development, children, kids, communication, parenting, focus, success, motivation, Personal Growth, self improvement, self esteem

  This morning, the phone rang at 7:25am. During business hours, I normally say, "Be Happy in LIFE, this is Gal", but it was only 7:25am during Summer Break (we live in Australia) and I was still in bed, so I said, "Hello". The voice of a teenage girl ...

• Make a list (27): If I were Santa Claus

  Posted on Wednesday December 23rd, 2009 at 09:59 pm in relationships, personal development, children, kids, how to, parenting, holidays, inspiration, focus, happiness, lifestyle, Personal Growth

  Before Christmas comes, I always think about kindness. Santa is a very nice guy, don't you think? He makes so many people happy and it is not only the kids, because what makes kids happy also makes their parents happy (in fact, to some extent, it eve...

• Who You Are Makes a Difference

  Posted on Tuesday December 22nd, 2009 at 07:51 pm in relationships, communication, parenting, video, inspiration, focus, happiness, lifestyle, motivation, story, change, suicide

  A few days ago, I got a link to a really special video, which I would like to share with you. The owners of the video require that it open in a separate window/tab, but it created such an emotional reaction in me, I am sharing it anyway for your bene...

• Work-Life Imbalance

  Posted on Sunday December 20th, 2009 at 06:26 pm in relationships, money, parenting, Career, society, focus, success, goals, lifestyle, motivation, work life balance, values

  Every economic crisis brings to the work–life juggling act out of balance. The greater the economic crisis, the harder it is for families to maintain their lifestyle and values and therefore questions what work-life balance is. Everywhere around th...

• Kid Grief

  Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 07:15 pm in baby, relationships, health, children, kids, parenting, babies, pregnancy, Vision, death, grief, trust

  Grief is hard for grownups and can be even harder for kids. As we grieved for our lost hopes and our two dead babies, our very-much-alive daughter Eden was going through a very tough time. [If you reading this blog for the first time and you want to ...

• Baby Hope

  Posted on Thursday November 19th, 2009 at 07:44 pm in baby, relationships, health, parenting, babies, friendship, pregnancy, Vision, death, grief, acceptance, family matters

  If you were here yesterday and read about my "heart surgery" this is the next part. If not, please read 35-hour baby first so you can understand why I needed so much hope to move forward. … I spent hours closing my eyes and trying to wake up in a d...

• When Partners Differ

  Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 09:45 pm in relationships, communication, how to, parenting, marriage, focus, values, choice, behavior, discipline, judgment, trust

  Parenting kids is a challenge for most people. There are many things that make parenting such a challenge, but one of the big ones is that a couple of parents is made up of two different individuals, each with their own upbringing, values, beliefs an...

• Kids’ Survival Skills

  Posted on Tuesday November 3rd, 2009 at 09:52 pm in relationships, children, kids, communication, parenting, society, focus, friends, lifestyle, change, behavior, social skills

  In the Stone Age, survival involved hunting, gathering, finding shelter, keeping a file going and making simple stone tools. Men were men, women were women and kids had to observe and learn from their respective role models how to survive, but it was...

• The Worst Age for Kids

  Posted on Tuesday October 27th, 2009 at 09:12 pm in travel, relationships, children, kids, how to, parenting, focus, teens, teenagers, behavior, discipline, fear

  A few days ago, I went to pick Tsoof up from school and bumped into his guitar teacher (Andrew Kennedy, a rare combination of a professional musician, a gentle human being and a good teacher). We had a chat about Tsoof's progress and how much he was ...

• How to Discipline Your Kids

  Posted on Wednesday October 21st, 2009 at 08:36 pm in relationships, communication, how to, parenting, happiness, motivation, choice, behavior, discipline, family matters, poll, control

  I get asked many times about disciplining kids. I hate the word "discipline", because I believe kids do not need to be disciplined, they need to be loved and cared for, supported and encouraged. Discipline has nothing to do with being happy - not wit...

• Things Teens Discover Too Late

  Posted on Monday October 19th, 2009 at 11:06 pm in relationships, personal development, book, parenting, Identity, success, teens, motivation, teenagers, Personal Growth, self improvement, choice

  In the last 25 years, while I was working with teens and collecting information for my book Be Special, Be Yourself for Teenagers, I have discovered many important things about being a teenager. It was funny to discover these things when I was no lon...

• Good Fences

  Posted on Tuesday October 13th, 2009 at 10:29 pm in relationships, communication, parenting, society, Privacy, lifestyle, social, safety, choice, fear, acceptance, family matters

  Life coach or not, sometimes I just have to vent, so have a seat, put your helmet on and get ready, because here it comes. Jim, the neighbor sharing our back fence, rang this week to ask if we would share the cost of replacing the fence that separate...

• "F" Words

  Posted on Monday October 12th, 2009 at 09:11 pm in relationships, children, kids, communication, how to, parenting, focus, behavior, perception, beliefs, projection, early childhood

  Now that my birthday is approaching, I wish to bless myself and all my readers with many "F" words. Yes, I know many people feel offended by being blessed with the "F" word, but I think it is actually Fun. I came up with this blessing a long time ago...

• I See Good People (and you can too)

  Posted on Tuesday October 6th, 2009 at 08:29 pm in relationships, personal development, parenting, focus, Personal Growth, self improvement, stress, fear, pressure, judgment, acceptance, tolerance

  In our time, pressure seems to be everywhere. There is a wealth of information like never before, which means we could find out about anything we wanted, only this takes time, so we look for "drip feeds" that will give us up-to-the-minute updates and...

• Make a list (21): Expectations

  Posted on Friday October 2nd, 2009 at 02:38 am in relationships, personal development, goal setting, how to, parenting, focus, happiness, success, motivation, Personal Growth, self improvement, change

  I always say life depends on what we focus on. Our expectations are a way of focusing on what we would like the future to hold for us, which means our life depends on them. Expectations can motivate you or hurt you and only we can determine what the...

• Auditory Musicians

  Posted on Wednesday September 30th, 2009 at 09:09 pm in relationships, music, children, kids, parenting, kinesthetic, auditory, communication styles, learning styles, academic performance, k-12 education, education learning

  Last Friday, our entire family went to listen to a Jazz concert, which was part of a series of concerts organized by a university's performing arts department. One of the members of the band was my son's percussion tutor at the recent MOST residentia...

• Racist Kids

  Posted on Monday September 21st, 2009 at 09:38 pm in relationships, communication, how to, parenting, society, friends, story, change, choice, cultural, acceptance, family matters

  As you probably know by now, I love stories and after you read this, you will know why I wanted to pass this story on to you. "I am married to a Scottish man. Recently, our 3-years-old daughter's birthday was coming. She said she wanted to invite fr...

• Lessons in Patience

  Posted on Monday September 14th, 2009 at 08:57 pm in relationships, personal development, goal setting, how to, parenting, inspiration, focus, happiness, dreams, success, lifestyle, Personal Growth

  Have you ever looked at the watch again and again, only to find that 30 seconds had passed? I think humans have a real challenge with the notion of time. Time is not very consistent with the feeling of waiting for something to happen. When we are hap...

• Make a list (18): Ways to be kind

  Posted on Thursday September 10th, 2009 at 08:10 pm in relationships, personal development, how to, focus, friends, happiness, lifestyle, community, Personal Growth, positive, self improvement, change

  In 1991, Allan Luks (former executive director of The Institute for the Advancement of Health and executive director of the Big Brothers and Big Sisters program in New York City) documented a study about kindness in a book called "The healing power o...

• Twin Decisions

  Posted on Tuesday September 8th, 2009 at 11:37 pm in relationships, children, kids, how to, parenting, focus, teens, teenagers, self confidence, choice, acceptance, family matters

  A few days ago, our friend Helen called. A kid had dies as a result of violence at her son Oliver's school and he did not want to go there anymore. Instead, he wanted to go to his twin brother's school, except his twin brother objected. "What shoul...

• Success Ripples

  Posted on Monday September 7th, 2009 at 07:33 pm in relationships, personal development, school, communication, parenting, focus, learning, success, motivational speaker, motivation, Life Coaching, leadership

  Have I ever told you about my ripple effect theory? For me, teaching, coaching and writing are ways to make a positive change in people's lives. Sometimes, I say to myself, "I need to touch people, just touch them slightly and if I hit the right butt...

• You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know

  Posted on Tuesday September 1st, 2009 at 10:38 pm in relationships, communication, how to, parenting, marriage, teens, teenagers, behavior, judgment, acceptance, family matters, tolerance

  Every relationship, with your partner, your parents or your kids, requires effort. No matter how compatible you are with the other person, each of you has a different background and continues to go through a different life. Each of you may be complet...

• Another Buggy Story

  Posted on Monday August 31st, 2009 at 06:14 pm in relationships, children, kids, parenting, fun, happiness, acceptance, family matters, tolerance, emotional intelligence

  It is funny how things evolve. Last week, I drove with a friend of ours in his car and I saw a buggy - a real buggy, not a Toyota or any buggy-like car, but a beautiful yellow buggy. I did not think he would understand, so I just smiled to myself and...

• TV Diet (9): Kids’ Personalities

  Posted on Sunday August 30th, 2009 at 09:57 pm in relationships, children, kids, parenting, TV, add, focus, learning, success, lifestyle, television, adhd

  In the past 8 weeks, I have written about the damaging effects of watching too much TV. Last week, I suggested measuring the amount of time your kids watch TV and keeping a record of the kinds of programs they watch. I hope this has given you a good ...

• Make a list (16): Beliefs about Kids

  Posted on Friday August 28th, 2009 at 12:31 am in baby, relationships, health, personal development, children, kids, communication, how to, parenting, focus, learning, babies

  Last week, I wrote about writing your beliefs about kids. As I said, beliefs are a reflection of our parenting style. What we believe about kids becomes our reality. I realized this during my Special Education studies and I started making sure I alwa...