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 | Parenting, Perspectives, your WHY
I hope by now that you’re seeing not only the pattern I’m laying out, but the connections—how each of these subjects build upon the previous one. But what’s special about this point in our parenting adventure, is the clarifying experience of watching how our WHY...
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 | Defintions, Parenting, Perspectives, your WHY
When you’ve discovered your WHY, thought ahead, maintained consistency, focused on what it means to BE a parent, it can build unity in a marriage. That unity fosters in us a growing control over our unwanted/needed emotions, which allows us to focus on what’s MOST...
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...
