Acknowledge What’s Not Working and Change the Future

Happy Valentine’s Day

Acknowledge What’s Not Working and Change the Future

Book: 101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life
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HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY

I wish you and your family lots of hugs, kisses and love on this celebratory day.

Sorry I missed last week, I’ve been helping my mother recover after major surgery.

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ACKNOWLEDGE WHAT’S NOT WORKING AND CHANGE THE FUTURE

I’ve been helping my 6th grader since 3rd grade on his school speeches. This entails timing his practices, asking him questions to fill in the time, and giving him pointers (i.e. eye contact, breathe and more.)

And undoubtedly every time, sometime during the process, we ram our heads against each other: screaming at each other and/or tears and/or throwing our arms up. Sometimes this is the end of the session, sometimes due to time constraints, we have to go on.

This past fall he had a speech and he worked really hard and we rammed our heads quite a bit.

The day he gave his speech, he arrived home before I did. I called home to see how it went; it went well and he felt great about it. It told him that he worked really hard and deserved a great grade.

I also told him that I would really like for us to not ram our heads together less next time. He said “Me too.”

Since this speech he’s had two others, and each time our head ramming has occurred less and less.

What techniques have you used in diminishing ramming heads with your child(ren)?

I’d love to hear about it.

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101 GREAT WAYS TO IMPROVE YOUR LIFE: Volume 3

My friend Nancy Heimstra, from Authentic Living Now, is a contributing author in the book above; a compilation of 101 articles with practical, solid advice on how you can finally take action and improve your life.

Go here to read more about it and the bonuses you receive upon purchase.
www.Parent.Family-Rx.com/Nancy_Heimstra.

Happy Reading!