Change is hard. It can be painful. Change challenges us.  Change is also inevitable, but we have a choice as to how we are going to experience it.  As many of you know, my son is in love with his BMX bike. We are at the skate park for hours…a lot of hours. We were […]

What are grades for? Should we punish our children when they get a “bad” grade? Should we reward them when they get a “good” grade? Is paying kids for good grades a good idea?  Taryn Voget, founder of the Everyday Genius Institute, asks me what I do. Listen in and discover a whole new way […]

This video shows how to put into action some of the key ideas presented in Chapter 5 “Choose the Energy You Bring to Every Situation” in the book “How to Raise a Happy Child (and be happy too).” In this scenario, author and kid whisperer Heather Criswell shows a situation where her child gets angry […]