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 | Children, How To, Parenting, Podcast, your WHY
If there’s one thing I could guarantee will bring about your downfall as a parent, it’s a lack of consistency. Children, and young children in particular, must have consistency if they are to learn and thrive under your direction. What’s worse, is that if you lack...
by Jaime Buckley | Apr 11, 2022 | Children, Parenting, your WHY
When I started this season with ‘Discovering our Parenting WHY’, I mentioned that knowing our ‘why’ was one of, if not THE most critical aspect of our parenting foundation. Because knowing why you do something helps clarify other aspects of our lives. It empowers us...
by Jaime Buckley | Apr 9, 2022 | Children, How To, Parenting, Perspectives
INTRODUCTION There are times in life when parenting is a very lonely profession. Times when you are striving to do all the right things for all the right reasons, and it feels like the world’s against you. As if each and every decision you make is fought, argued,...
by Jaime Buckley | Apr 9, 2022 | Children, Fathers, Perspectives, Q&A
I’m excited for you! There are basics to being a dad, which have been mentioned online over and over, such as getting involved, supporting your wife, learning to care for your child (diapers, dressing, feeding etc). They’re not wrong, but there’s so much more to being...
