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Congraduations!
This week, my youngest graduates from high school. It’s a wonderful but bittersweet time, as many of you…
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Judge Not
In a world where we can swipe through friends’ messages with less effort than erasing a whiteboard, taking the time to carefully consider our…
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Seeing Your Children as Adults
This quote by the legendary comedienne Lucille Ball is true on a couple of different levels. On one hand, she seems to be talking about the phenomenon…
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Helping Your Kids Make Friends
“The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.” (Voltaire) Watching our kids struggle with friendships is one of the hardest parts of parenting. That’s why I specifically address the topic in each of the editions of our new Choose Your Own Adulthood Online Platform. I cannot urge you strongly enough to check […]
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Respond More, React Less
Respond More, React Less is, in many ways, the entire ScreamFree message. It’s also an important section in our new online platform, Choose Your Own Adulthood. The platform has editions…
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Train More, Try Less
Give it a shot, but don’t get your hopes up. Go for it, but don’t expect it to work out. This has come to be…
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Choose More of What You Want Most
Yesterday we talked about the High School and College Editions of our new online course on the Pause Platform, Choose Your Own Adulthood. It launched yesterday, and I am so excited…
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Choose Your Own Adulthood
The greatest adventure in life is the transition into adulthood. Nothing compares to the newfound freedoms, possibilities, and responsibilities that come with life on your own. As my daughter began that journey…
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What does an adult look like?
Recently I was on a TV talk show, and the conversation led everyone to start singing “I believe the children are our future…” in their best Whitney Houston voices. I did not join in, which made me look…
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He’s not your baby
“He’ll always be my baby.” If I’ve heard that once, I’ve heard it a thousand times. And most people tend to agree with it, the idea that..