by Jaime Buckley | Apr 11, 2022 | Challenges, Children, Defintions, Fathers, Mothers, Perspectives, your WHY
What comes to your mind when I say ‘discipline’? Do you think of punishment? Restrictions? Maybe how you had spankings or time outs when you were a kid? If you look in the dictionary, you’ll find this: dis·ci·pline the practice of training people to obey rules or a...
by Jaime Buckley | Apr 11, 2022 | Challenges, Children, Defintions, Perspectives, your WHY
‘Hope’ is an important word to a parent. “I hope my child understands.” “I hope my child gets good grades.” “I hope my child will be able to get into a non-bat-crap-crazy college or better yet, a trade school.” “I hope that smell of dog crap isn’t my child walking...
by Jaime Buckley | Apr 11, 2022 | Challenges, Fathers, How To, Mothers, Perspectives
The challenges of being a parent don’t always come directly from your children. Many times it’s the outside forces and the variables that wear us down, put a pebble (or ten) in our shoes, or flat out hit us in the face. Having to deal with variables makes staying...
by Jaime Buckley | Apr 11, 2022 | Challenges, Fathers, How To, Mothers, Parenting, your WHY
As I’ve said many time, society wants to convert you, or destroy you. Many don’t share that view with me, but I’ll argue that society doesn’t give a damn about the family, and it works hard to dismantle ‘traditional’ family values. Fathers are portrayed as walking...
by Jaime Buckley | Apr 11, 2022 | Challenges, Parenting, Perspectives, your WHY
Have you ever wondered if how you feel gets in the way of what you should do? I have. We are creatures of emotion, by nature. But those very emotions that can grant us strength to barrel through something difficult, can also hinder us from making the right choice at...
by Jaime Buckley | Apr 4, 2022 | Challenges, Children, Perspectives
Once in a while, I take time to answer questions posed to me on Quora. This one hit home, only because I see it happening over and over again in society with today’s generation: My daughter assumed we would watch her 9 and 7-year-old children 5 days a week. When...
