The Task of a Teacher Who Is the Parent
Become your children’s teacher. (It can be fun, too). Don’t let the task of a teacher frighten you. Parenting is teaching. So enjoy the extension teaching brings to your interactions
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Equipping Our Minds for Life’s Journey
First, our minds need knowledge. Knowledge in the mind is like data in a computer. A computer without any data in its software programs is useless and tells us nothing.
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Identifying Mind Dangers
High on the list of safety for all of us is to be able to think with understanding, skill, and wisdom, a word that has fallen out of fashion in
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Safe for Body and Mind
What do parents want most for their children? To be safe, for sure. Warnings are now frequent about criminals on the loose. Crime and abductions are increasing. And even The
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Podcast #8: I’m a Keeper – Living by Design
How to Set Boundaries Your child may manage strong opposition to your boundaries. “This is a free country!” your teenager may exclaim as he endeavors to prove it to you.
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Crooked Thinking – Part Two: Curing a Distorted Worldview
As we continue our search to cure a distorted worldview, let’s address what is happening with our language in today’s culture. Changes in our speech are symptoms of the fabrications
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Here’s an age-old remedy for the disorders of the mind: Change the way you think, and you change who you are. Change who you are, and you change the world
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We previously discussed the need for discipline and the very effective “Grace Method” we can (and should) employ to teach our children self-discipline. Discipline, however, requires an understanding of boundaries.
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In our last episode, we discussed WHY the Grace Method is so successful. Today let’s delve a little deeper into this topic to learn the following about this “best method
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Formalize Your Thinking About Emotions, The Mysterious Side of the Brain
To understand emotion is to understand who we are and to comprehend something of the complexity of ourselves. Emotion heats up in us for pleasure and pain every day we
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A Hard Look at Logic, Reason, and Our Culture
Is it logical and reasonable? We often ask this question. We use these two words, logical and reasonable, frequently and we need them in our repertoire of words. But have
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What Is Truth for Us?
People have asked this for millennia in conversations and in recorded literature. Why? Do we have trouble with what is true? I would say, yes. All of us struggle with
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