Gifted Children Are Not Wise
Gifted kids are intelligent, clever, resourceful, sometimes brilliant, talented, insightful, creative, and in moments inspiring. This is a blessing and a curse for parents. While watching your 4-year-old create the…
Empowering or Enabling?
I struggle with this one a lot. Every parent I work with asks me the same question: When are we helping our children and when are we enabling them? Enabling…
Unpaid and Underappreciated
Being a parent of four children and three stepchildren and being a coach to many parents, I have noticed something really interesting, and it begs the question: Why do parents…
Pride and Punishment
I have to laugh when I think about the topic of punishment. You’ll see why in a moment. I often have parents ask me why punishments are not effective with…
Harvest the Low Hanging Fruit First
Many parents I work with are all consumed with their children. They worry. They microanalyze whether they think their child may be suffering from AD/HD or anxiety or some hidden…
AD/HD and Giftedness – A Coach’s Perspective
We have a very unique clientele. Our clients are, for the most part, gifted, even though many of them refute the label, and they all have AD/HD tendencies, some diagnosed,…