By Bob Kalle
During the year there are times that we give gifts to our children.. What kind of gifts do you give? Do you find it hard to find the right gift at the right time? Do our children seem to have everything they need? And even if they don’t, what gift would make the most impact? […]
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My experience as a high school teacher opened my eyes to how things have changed. For instance, many adults like me grew up under the philosophy that “children should be seen and not heard.” High schoolers have told me that they have never heard that saying. That seemed amazing to me. I heard it all […]
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Psychologists and researchers have taken the idea of learning principles to the nth degree. But since you’re not in school and need ideas quickly, let’s be brief. There are two major learning principles that you should pay attention to. The first is the concept of positive reinforcement, or a positive consequence. Simply, a behavior […]
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About 25 years ago, I was working in a psychiatric hospital and a young 14 year old girl asked me why her parents had locked her up. I thought carefully and gave her the best answer I could think of. Either she had really made them angry or had really scared them. Her response was […]
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Another way to understand your children is to know their personality type. Florence Littauer wrote a book called Personality Plus which discussed four types of personalities. I chose this book because it is written in easy and understandable terms and is very useful in understanding the people in our families. She discusses four basic […]
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When I was teaching my first course in Developmental Psychology, I learned that there were several historical conceptions about the nature of children. These ideas influenced me a great deal and taught me a new way to think about children. The book discussed four possible conceptions of childhood. […]
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Listen my son to your father’s instruction And do not forsake your mother’s teaching. Pr. 1:8 This goes along with the commandment Honor your Mother and Father. So why do we think this has the attention of one of the 10 commandments and the attention of the writers of the proverbs? The […]
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The third principle Andrews talks about is The Active Decision. This means that when you are faced with a decision, do something. Make a decision. Action is always better than inaction. When we act, it opens the door for something good to happen. If we do not […]
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In his book The Seven Decisions, Andrews talks about the second decision, The Guided decision is to seek wisdom. If we want to make good decisions toward our goals and success, we need to have as much wisdom as we can acquire. And he talks about three ways to get […]
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We might all agree that our Creator endowed all of us with free will. I do not believe anyone would dispute that we can choose whatever we want to do when we want to do it. Because we make these choices, we should believe that we are where we are […]
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