Posted August 18, 2015 | by Madeline Levine | Posted in Courageous Parenting I received this post in the Challenge Success Back to School Newsletter A new school year is about to begin. First, we need to get over the lingering regret about what we didn’t accomplish — the closets that remain unkempt, the books…
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When kids don’t cooperate with you, it’s easy to take it personally as though they are against you. I call this response the “parent’s victim mentality.” When you see yourself as a victim, you think your kids are acting against you-that you are the target of their behavior. You may think, “They are being disrespectful…
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A successful family to me is one where all members feel respected and accepted. Cooperation is built because of emotional connection and a commitment to developing healthy relationships. As a result, family members can discuss concerns and solve problems together. When parents need to direct children towards more socially acceptable behavior, it is done with teaching…
DetailsMy husband and I have an eighteen year-old son who feels like I’m constantly worrying about him. As a result, I get over controlling and my son doesn’t want to be a mamma’s boy. I decided I needed help from Cynthia to stop the worrying and to improve my communication skills. A key skill I…
DetailsHow to Get Your Kid to Talk about What Happened at School By Christine Carter | August 19, 2015 | 2 Comments Our kids’ lives are not our lives. Once you recognize that fact, saysChristine Carter, you can start the conversation. As the first day of school quickly approaches, parents are asking me how to…
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People make mistakes all the time. Not just bad people, or weak people. All people. Our mistakes are what make us human. And even when we don’t think that we’ve made a mistake, other people will often find errors in our ways. We human beings are walking offenders. Here’s the real question: If we’ve done…
DetailsAt Kidsdata.org, a program of Lucile Packard Foundation, they studied and reported on how safe kids felt at California Schools. On kidsdata.org, measures of school safety come from the California Healthy Kids Survey (CHKS), California Student Survey (CSS), and California School Climate Survey (CSCS). These indicators are made available through a partnership with WestEd, which…
DetailsParents desire to have loving relationships with their children so they will be trusted and their children will seek them out for support and advice. While teaching my parenting classes, it becomes clear that well-meaning parents are resorting to ineffective punishment strategies, which hurts the relationship, because they just don’t know what else to do.…
DetailsFour Lessons from “Inside Out” to Discuss With Kids By Jason Marsh, Vicki Zakrzewski | July 14, 2015 | 1 Comment This is the post on the Greater Good Science Center at U.C. Berkeley shared with you by Cynthia Klein, Family Success Coach, bridges2understa.wpstagecoach.com, 650.679,8138. blog http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/four_lessons_from_inside_out_to_discuss_with_kids The new Pixar film has moved viewers young and…
DetailsBuilding Cooperation for Better Behavior My son, Jack, is 9 and loves to argue with me. Everything I say he wants to challenge and disagree with. If I tell him to not lean on the rope in the water, he’ll lean on it just to let me know who’s boss. I came to Cynthia for…
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