All month long, our outstanding Powerful Words Member Schools will be talking with their students about the powerful word, diligence! How do you teach your children to carry out their tasks with great care and consistent effort until that task is completed? At a time when so many multi-task and desire to get as much [...]
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A new study is telling us that children as young as 2 years old are swearing more than ever. Of course they are! We see so much more swearing through TV, internet, and other technology that it’s become normalized. Something like WTF has become part of the culture that it’s like an entity in itself- [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Only a few spots left! FREE “How to Help Your Children Deal with Their Back to School Fears” Teleseminar! Dr. Robyn Silverman Good morning powerful parents! After I was interviewed as the parenting expert for Education.com on How to Deal with Back to School Fears in Children and related articles, I was contacted my several parents [...]
What Makes Powerful Words So Powerful for Kids? I’ve received some questions about Powerful Words Character Development lately and I wanted to take a moment to answer why Powerful Words is so powerful for children and why powerful parents are choosing schools that teach Powerful Words. What’s so special about schools that teach Powerful Words? [...]
There’s something about coming home. I’m currently in NJ where I grew up and yet, I’m not really where I once was. Since my Dad passed away way too early and entirely too suddenly in 2006 from liver cancer, my Mom has since moved out of the house where I spent my entire childhood and [...]
