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 | How To, Parenting, Perspectives, your WHY
If there’s one thing you count on in life, it’s distractions. Life and society tend to fill every crevice of our attention with something. A place to go, a person to talk to, something to do…but when I stop to think about it, are these things the MOST important things...
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 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 | Fathers, How To, Parenting, Perspectives, Teens
Being asked this question on Quora, I find it funny that it’s one of the challenges I’m facing right now with Ruby (my 2yr old). ANSWER: Same as it’s been for my 13 children: 7pm Now you should know that this was ‘bedtime’, but not ‘lights out’—and there’s a specific...