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Make a list (27): If I were Santa Claus
Family Matters | December 23rd 2009 by Gal Baras
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 read more
Better Parenting Skills
Family Matters | December 17th 2009 by Gal Baras
Just recently, I ran another Better Parenting skills workshop and Gal (my boyfriend, husband, the father of my kids and business partner) was there during the first part of the day. He said to me, "This is very special. You have to write about this". read more
How to Praise Your Kids (5)
Family Matters | December 17th 2009 by Gal Baras
In the last chapter of How to Praise Your Kids, I described studies claiming that over-praising can result in the development of competitive kids. I am sure it is all very disturbing for parents growing up in our "reward and praise era" to discover w read more
Responsible Parenting
Family Matters | December 15th 2009 by Gal Baras
When someone becomes a parent, it usually starts by being handed a small bundle. The bundle typically weighs around 3kg (6lbs), makes sweet sounds, looks cute and feels nice and warm. That moment feels so great, most parents list it high on their lis read more
How to Praise Your Kids (4)
Family Matters | December 14th 2009 by Gal Baras
If you are joining the "how to praise your kids" series today, I encourage you to start reading from first post, How to Praise Your Kids (1). You can see them on the sports filed or in a lesson. They are smart kids, but they need constant reminders o read more
How to Praise Your Kids (3)
Family Matters | December 13th 2009 by Gal Baras
On Thursday, I wrote about research into the difference between praising kids for effort and praising them for being smart and each type of praise affects kids' performance. On Friday, I wrote about subsequent research that showed how to change kids' read more
What is required is the line of demarcation between personal and…
DeepakVasudevan Personal Weblog | December 11th 2009
What is required is the line of demarcation between personal and professional spheres!The most desired attitude amongst people of having to isolate their personal and business spheres is the one that is mysteriously and significantly absent at least read more
How to Praise Your Kids (2)
Family Matters | December 10th 2009 by Gal Baras
If you are a regular visitor to this site, you are probably familiar with many of the coaching tips I give parents. Some of them are related to praising kids. But praise can take on many forms, so which is best? Yesterday, I wrote about Prof. Carol D read more
How to Praise Your Kids (1)
Family Matters | December 9th 2009 by Gal Baras
A few weeks ago, when my 8-year-old daughter Noff brought her "Alien House" from school, we were all very impressed. It was a tall 3-story box house, with lights (because her alien was afraid of the dark) and she had planned and executed her plan at read more
This is who I am
Family Matters | December 8th 2009 by Gal Baras
About a month ago, I was sitting with the kids somewhere and we listened to the radio. Then, a song started playing that sounded like Pink at first, but not quite, so I listened to it closely. This is what I heard: I spend my life trying to do thing read more
Renew Your Mental Energy
Family Matters | December 6th 2009 by Gal Baras
Today is the first day of the rest of my life. I wake as a child to see the world begin - John Denver" Going away from home is a good way to review your life from a distance. As you probably know, I have been away for three weeks to visit my family read more
Make a list (25): how to use my time better
Family Matters | December 3rd 2009 by Gal Baras
Time is a precious thing. Everybody knows that. Although we have had 24 hours every day all our life, it feels like every year we have less of it and the days get shorter, doesn't it? It may be hard to accept, but all the people in the world have the read more
How To Rock In Your Personal Growth Initiatives
Mystic Madness | December 2nd 2009 by Amit
I have always believed that only thing which is personal and permanent in our life is Growth. We grow every day not only physically but through our varied experiences too. Never in our life there is a day that goes by where you have not learnt read more
Home Alone
Family Matters | December 1st 2009 by Gal Baras
As you may know, Ronit is away now for over 3 weeks. She is away just before the end of the school year in Australia, when ceremonies and special events abound and when "my plate" fuller than ever with things to do, not to mention the printing of her read more
let them take responsibility
she teaches | November 24th 2009 by myla
When I was younger, I often hear older people say “kids are different these days” and that always connotes something negative. Now that I am an adult, I also have the same opinion on children of today– they are quite different from how we wer read more
AS A MAN THINKETH -James Allen
Yuvahotnspicy | November 19th 2009 by crack
This amazing book is by a literary 'mystery man' whose inspirational writings have positively influenced millions of people worldwide, yet today he remains almost unknown. A remarkable blueprint for living, this little gem serves as a course of read more
Happiness is a Choice
Family Matters | November 12th 2009 by Gal Baras
Happiness is probably the thing people dedicate their life to achieve the most. Their definition of happiness is different from one to another, but when they focus on a relationship, they want to be happy in that relationship, when they focus on mone read more
Smile
Chanting Lake | November 12th 2009 by vivek singh
My wife shared this poem with me yesterday and it's truly inspirational. You too enjoy it and keep smiling. Let this poem travel the world, you can simply email to the ones who you want to SMILE.Love VivekSMILESmiling is infectious,You catch it like read more
I Will Keep Trying
Chanting Lake | November 12th 2009 by vivek singh
At my first job, I had a very dynamic and wise colleague who was recently promoted. I was curious to know what led to his promotion while many others could not succeed.He said, “Interviewers asked me, what would you do, if a guy in your team is no read more
Forgive for Your Own Sake
Chanting Lake | November 11th 2009 by vivek singh
An early morning, when I turned on BBC, I was in the middle of an ongoing documentary. An old lady in late 50s was talking about her only daughter who was brutally killed after being sexually assaulted by a robber at the farmhouse. Like others, she d read more
Scouting: A Preparation for a Better Future
Scolex Portal | November 8th 2009 by Joel L. Bangahon
It's just 3 days more to go and we will depart from our station(school) to attend the Provincial Scout Jamborette to be held in Mati, Davao Oriental this November 12-17, 2009. Months had passed since i've planned it in my mind that this year i wil read more
Make a list (25): Quotes to live by
Family Matters | November 5th 2009 by Gal Baras
Quotes are signs we put on our map to navigate through the journey called "life" - Ronit Baras Quotes are signs we put on our map to navigate through the journey called "life". We need the signs to find our way through the happiness and sadness, joy read more
Happy to Be Myself
Family Matters | November 2nd 2009 by Gal Baras
Be yourself, everyone else is taken - Oscar Wilde Yesterday, when I drove with my daughter Noff to a "girls' night out" at her school, she said to me, "I wish I had a baby sister or a baby brother". That started a conversation about what is best to b read more
Make a list (24): Excuses
Family Matters | October 29th 2009 by Gal Baras
Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses - Christian Friedrich Hebbel As a life coach whose task is to help people reach their full potential and live the life they want, I hear endless excuses about why people are no read more
Formula For Success
ShawnLiv Dot Com - Love & Life - | October 29th 2009 by Shawn
8 Simple steps to formula Success Step 1 Find your Passion What should you do if you had all the money, and all the time in the world? What parts of your job and your life are consistent with your passion? Step 2 Define Success In the only terms th read more
Would You Rather . . .
Irresistible Fascinations | October 24th 2009 by naomi
be smart but not beautiful, or beautiful but not smart?That question was a very popular one about six months ago, during our Mindanao Palaro held in Davao City. It was a question picked by our region's candidate during a beauty search.Of course, if read more
Make a list (23): Your Good Parenting Qualities
Family Matters | October 22nd 2009 by Gal Baras
I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week - Mario Cuomo Every one of my parent coaching clients needs one important component of parenting - an appreciation of his or her qualities read more
Winners and Losers
Family Matters | October 20th 2009 by Gal Baras
I like to walk around our beautiful neighborhood in the morning. It is one of the things that make me happy. I do it to warm up my body and mind, get my creative juices flowing (into the voice recorder on my mobile phone) and be ready for another gr read more
Things Teens Discover Too Late
Family Matters | October 19th 2009 by Gal Baras
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 read more
Make a list (22): Rules I Follow
Family Matters | October 15th 2009 by Gal Baras
When I write the word "rules", I know not everyone thinks about it the same way. Some people think that rules put order in their life and others think they put limits on it. If you think rules are a source of stability in your life, you may want to read more
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