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Parents and Kids: Making "Rocks" a Priority
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Parents and Kids: Making "Rocks" a Priority

Join me in making “rocks” a priority! Make the most of your time and teach your kids to do the same.

Family, friends, health (spiritual and physical). These are things that are most important. None of these requires MONEY, but they all require TIME. To be sure, work, school, and our hobbies (passions) are very important, but pale in comparison. When we spend most of our time on: the least important things like television, video games, social media, cleaning, shopping, and so on, we are never satisfied, or really happy. (click the arrow to “read more” for all the good stuff)

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Communicating With our Children - 3 Tips
Parenting Kathy Perry Parenting Kathy Perry

Communicating With our Children - 3 Tips

It’s so easy to be negative, to judge, to demand, to label, or blame, isn’t it? It takes effort, and practice, to frame sentences positively, to praise, and react calmly without attacking a person. This not only applies to children, but to adults as well. We would do well to think about how we speak to anyone. Following are 3 tips from first-hand experience and some highly relatable, short videos.

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