by VP Admin | Apr 30, 2018 | Top Ten Tips, Weekly Parenting Tip
We meet many families that have gone through much worry and grief because of a single bad decision that one of their children made. Kids get blindsided by peer pressure that they had not anticipated or prepared for. The best way to prevent this from happening is to...
by VP Admin | Apr 23, 2018 | Top Ten Tips, Weekly Parenting Tip
We often ask parents what they think is their biggest parenting challenge. The number one answer is “Entitlement Attitudes.” The best way to deal with this widespread problem is to understand that we give our kids more by giving them less, and to set up a work and...
by VP Admin | Apr 16, 2018 | Top Ten Tips, Weekly Parenting Tip
Most businesses have them—a clear statement of mission, of goals, of what the company wants to be. Families should have one too, a family vision statement, created together by parents and children thinking together about what they want their families to become. We...
by VP Admin | Apr 9, 2018 | Top Ten Tips, Weekly Parenting Tip
If we want our family culture to be stronger than the peer culture, the internet culture, the celebrity culture and all the other cultures that swirl around our kids, we need fun and compelling family traditions. Most families have traditions—the trick is to refine...
by VP Admin | Apr 2, 2018 | Top Ten Tips, Weekly Parenting Tip
How do I nip my kids’ problems in the bud and recognize their gifts in time to cultivate them? Try having a “Five Facet Review” once a month where you sit down as a couple and go through the five aspects of each child. “How is Tommy doing physically? How is he doing...
