Children Will Listen

What do you find yourself saying to your child these days? Do your actions tell them a different story? Do you tell them they are loved, yet find little time to spend with them? Is that time spent exploring who they are, or is it spent telling them why they are wrong or bad?

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Brainwashed

Americans have been brainwashed into believing that every child needs a high school diploma, and that everyone should go to college. I challenge this unexamined assumption. Education should not be wasted on those who do not want to be educated. More specifically, educated in

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Taking Pride in Who You Are

We have been told that pride goes before the fall. We have also been told that pride is not just a sin, but one of the seven deadly sins. On the flip side, we are given the idea that we should take pride in our work, be proud of our country, of our loved ones, […]

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Always Wanted to Be Someone

Our world is rife with artificially enhanced and exaggerated role models, mixed messages of right and wrong, and what we should do to become like them. It is no great surprise that children today are struggling more than ever. Not a day goes by where their supposed ‘role

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Communicating With Young Children

Adults often become frustrated when communicating with young children. Parents and teachers often ask me, “Are we really communicating? Do they understand me? Do I truly understand them?”. Children, especially young children, are still learning to use words. Their

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What Creates a Bully? How Do We Stop it?

Bullying can come from a couple of different places. The first is being simply shown, or role modeled. For instance, a child watches their parents act like bullies. Their young minds reasonably conclude that there are two kinds of people in the world: bullies, and the ones

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Mixed Messages

We send a number of mixed messages to our youth. We tell them to shoot for the stars but to remember their limitations. We guide them to be an individual, as long as they fit in with the “options” we have given them. We encourage them to take risks but nothing too risky, or

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Finding the Fun in Spirituality

Fun and the spiritual life – how do those two concepts go together? After years spent working in corporate America, followed by dealing with the challenges of trying to run a successful full-time spiritual business at a time when most people did not think it was

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Evolving Perfection

Evolving perfection is when; by being fully present, authentic, interactive, and open to evolving, we are in the becoming process.  Becoming more authentic, more of who you are and came here to be and embracing change and growth. Therefore, by being perfectly ourselves

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