The Conversation Starter
RikI'm a certified coach and communication skills teacher. I write about cultivating stronger personal and professional relationships by having better and more supportive conversations in your day to day life.
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The comparenting trap
Our daughter never crawled.
She was perfectly content sitting upright, taking in what was happening around her and keeping her hands busy with whatever she could reach. When she eventually decided she wanted to move, she worked out that sc...
Teaching is too exciting
“How long is a whole day and a whole night together?”
Yes! I thought.
That familiar little surge of excitement showed up immediately: I can teach her something.
She’s interested in numbers at the moment. Doing small additions, asking how...
Adults don’t have it figured out
As a kid, I always assumed that adults knew better than me.
I was overwhelmed by the complexity of the world.
I remember looking at the grain of our wooden table and thinking about the tree it came from. An entire living thing, with cells...
Stop being so non-judgmental
I have a minor obsession with parents offering their kids choices that aren’t really choices.
I hear them everywhere.
“Do you want to put your shoes on?”
“No.”
“Well, we have to go.”
And then five minutes later to another parent: “Why...
“Listen more” is bad advice
This must sound strange coming from someone who spends an unreasonable amount of time telling his readers to listen more.
But “You should listen more” is bad advice.
The basic theory of good communication is actually pretty simple:
Under...
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I’m a certified coach from The Netherlands. I write about listening skills, relationships, and how to have supportive conversations.
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