Questions to discuss with your children at the Thanksgiving Table:
What are you grateful for this year?
Who have you thanked recently and for what?
Who has thanked you and why?
How can you donate your Time, Treasures, and Talents this year?
What is it about your family makes you grateful?
What is it about your school or your friends that [...]
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I know. We’ve mentioned this kind of thing before. Generosity and children…now? It seems almost impossible to think about teaching your children to give at the same time as they are thrusting their holiday gift list in your face, Santa Claus is Coming to Town has been playing since the day after Halloween, and the [...]
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I’ve been receiving several questions about Dads lately—especially in the context of divorce, and how important it is for mothers to encourage their girls to retain a relationship with their Dads. Even when there is animosity and frustration between parents, a strong relationship between Dads and Daughters is vital. Here I talk about why it’s [...]
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The Powerful Word of the Month is Dependability! Today, I’m answering a question from Nancy, a parent in Morristown, NJ, about how to teach children to become dependable.
Dear Dr. Robyn,
My child is still pretty young but I would like him to learn to be dependable now instead of waiting until he is older. My sister’s [...]
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The Powerful Word of the Month is Dependability! Here are some great “dependability quotes” to get us inspired!
“Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.” (Norman Vincent Peale, preacher, author, and originator of the “Power of Positive Thinking.”)
“Be the person who can keep a secret, isn’t a gossip, [...]
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Parenting can be stressful. Places to go, people to see, homework to do, dinner to cook, laundry to fold, and a mile long list of to-dos that have been accumulating since 1999. A fresh mouth and uncooperative behavior can be just the thing that breaks the camel’s back for some parents. They want their children [...]
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The Powerful Words Projects this month asked for the students to submit how they are showing discipline in their lives. I’m proud to say congratulations to these top 3 Powerful Kids! We applaud you!
Bryce Logan—who submitted his answer first! He writes from Mr. Prieto’s school, Chun Kuk Do Karate of the Woodlands, and says “I [...]
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Do your children and teens listen to the external rules guiding them to do what is expected of them in the home, at school, and out in the community? Most of the time? That’s a big part of discipline, our Powerful Word of the Month. But there is also another part– making sure that they [...]
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Both discipline, the Powerful Word of the Month, and self discipline, are very important action-oriented words that help us become successful. Without paying attention to the external rules and what is expected of us, and our internal rules (our “I-Rules,” as we call them at Powerful Words Member Schools), that govern who we are and [...]
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