How to Create a More Meaningful Holiday Season
Seven Ways to Make Your Holidays More Meaningful What are your best Christmas memories as a child? What are the holiday times that you’d love to go back to and live over and over? Bet it wasn’t the biggest, most amazing or expensive gift that you got, or a day spent at one of the theme parks decked…
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children and generosity The upcoming holiday season is a great time to teach children about generosity and gratitude. Developing the trait of generosity is something that can be started early in small ways and then developed into bigger projects as the child grows. Taking into consideration the personality of the family members involved (as in all…
Read MoreHow to handle a child’s perfectionism
Tips to Help a Perfectionist Child As a school counselor for twenty years, I often heard from teachers and parents who were coping with a perfectionist student. Intelligent and capable of high quality work, this is often a child who dissolves into tears or a tantrum when they don’t perform a task perfectly or if…
Read Moreshould you hire a coach or DIY?
Have you thought about hiring a coach, but wonder if you really need one? Couldn’t you could just do it yourself? Or maybe you could read one of those self-help books and just do what it says? After all… how hard could it be? Here are some thoughts to help you make the decision… Four signs you…
Read MoreIs it the right time?
At my recent Create Your Life Vision Board workshop I asked the participants what inspired them to come. Here are some of the answers: “This opportunity appeared just when lots of other things were coming together for me. I just felt like it was the right time.” “I’ve got a lot of ideas and I’m going in a…
Read MoreHow effective is your school’s ISS?
School ISS Plans Last week I was at a school doing some staff training on developing positive behavior systems based on understanding personality style. I had a conversation with the principal about the role of ISS (in school suspension) and how effective it is as a deterrent to misbehavior. Most school personnel would agree that…
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