022: The Impact of Unrecognized Family Patterns, and Giving Our Kids the Awareness to Break Them
The roles we play (or are cast) to play in our families: Patterns that were passed on to us from our parents and the patterns that we might...
021: Mistaking Kindness for Weakness – how we talk to our kids about kindness while cautioning them about being taken advantage of
Do kind kids (and adults) get taken advantage of? Perhaps, but what we have found is that being -passive- is often confused with kindness and is FAR more...
Episode 020: What got us here won't get you there… An interview with my dad on growing up as an immigrant in the 60's
Several years ago, I recorded an interview with my father about a month after he was diagnosed with colon cancer. We discussed what it was like as a...
Episode 019: Holiday and birthday gifting with our kids: Why we (try to) focus on giving experiences vs toys
My six-year-old son recently asked me to tell him a story about Christmas, specifically about the gifts I got when I was a little boy. I told him...
Episode 018: Impacts and lessons of social ostracism on parents and kids
How our kids will deal with peer pressure, social ostracism, and wanting to “fit in” is determined largely by how they see us dealing with these issues as...