Paul: Make sure you are in the right place, because if you are a perfect parent, this is not for you. This planet is populated with imperfect people. In fact, I think that’s perfect. I have a little mantra and I do this with my clients. Vicki, you’ve heard this before. You are perfectly designed […]
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Maybe I should just sing you a lullaby. Would that help? No, probably not. I’m a psychologist. I want to help you understand how to calm your mind down before sleep. Let’s take a look at the 4 main culprits that disturb your sleep and then we will come up with a strategy for each
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Do you have busy energetic children? We’ve got 4 hacks for rambunctious kids. Paul: I love that my job is to illuminate the obvious. Some obvious things are totally unnoticed and I think this is important to notice. Children’s work is? Vicki: Play. Paul: Right. So, here is hack number 1: Play with your kids.
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So I’m touting positivity all the time, I’m the positivity shrink. Negativity actually affects our brain in real ways and we have a choice to be positive or negative. Where is your thinking? The first video I released on my YouTube Channel, Live On Purpose TV, talked about how to stay positive no matter what.
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Some of our viewers of Live On Purpose TV ask for help in healing from a traumatic experience. I think it’s universal because we all have traumatic things happen to us. Have you noticed that stuff happens and it’s not always stuff that we had planned and things just come out of left field sometimes
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Working with teens can be a real challenge. This post is for teens, to let them know how to improve their relationship with their parents. Paul: You know, Vic, when I’m working with families about this, the place that I always want to start is with an understanding of parent psychology. Vicki: Parent psychology for
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Time management is a myth. Did that surprise you? I know that’s a bold statement but think about it. Can you manage time? Do you have some control over the grand cosmic scheme of things that you can actually manage it? Some people think about saving time. Where would you keep it? You can’t. All
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Our parents never had to deal with this question when we were kids because the world has changed. Is screen time dangerous for kids? Paul: There is actually a lot of studies coming out that are showing that yeah, there are some negative effects of too much screen time. But you know what? I think
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Learning how to do hard things will propel you forward faster than anything I know. A good place to start is to clarify why. Why do hard things? Because they are hard. Well, yeah. That’s why we call them hard things. I’ve learned this: You get to have either hard-easy or easy-hard. And what I
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Whether it is you having problems with stubbornness, or someone you know, it is helpful to start with the root cause of stubbornness. I’m going to go out on a limb here and suggest that it’s pride. I don’t mean a healthy sense of who you are. I’m talking about destructive pride, where you know
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