“A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.” (Dutch Proverb) Good Morning! For me, the hardest thing to learn when raising my children was patience. The dictionary defines patience “as the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset”. If we go by that definition, I had very little. Having ADHD definitely was…
Mistakes Are Proof That You Are Trying. Technologyrocksseriously.com Good Morning, I cannot count the number of mistakes that I made raising my children. I cannot count them because there are way to many of them! Considering the number of parenting mistakes I made, I am thrilled with today’s quote. Instead of being embarrassed about all of…
“If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.” George S. Patton Good Morning! One of the positive traits about having ADD is the ability to think differently. The ability to think out of the box. That is why many inventors, CEO’S of successful businesses, athletes, artists, and actors have ADD. Their ability to…
Good Morning! Being a good parent does not mean that you will never be challenged by your child. It does not mean that your children always behave the way you want them to. It does not mean that life will always go along smoothly. Parenting is hard and the trials and tribulations that we…
There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you’d be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature. Ayelet Waldman Good…
“I suppose that every parent loves his child, but I know, without any supposing, that in a large number of homes the love is hidden behind authority, or its expression is crowded out by daily duties and cares” — Abbot E. Kittredge Good Morning! In our family, when my children were growing up, there…
It’s important to admit your mistakes & say your sorry to your kids. Only that way will you build trust – Kevin Heath Good Morning! We used to have a Big Bird video that was titled, Everyone Makes Mistakes. It was a great video about Big Bird making mistakes and then trying to cover…
We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.” ~ Phyllis Diller Good Morning! Phyllis Diller was a stand-up comedian from the 1950’s to her death in 2012. She was the Joan Rivers of my…
