The Conversation Starter
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The ultimate guide to fucking up your kids
Here’s what you do.
When your kids act up, lash out, or behave badly, immediately start pointing fingers.
Blame them, punish them, correct them. But whatever you do, don’t look inward. Don’t make this about you. It’s unnecessarily uncomfo...
The worst thing you can do to a parent is give them advice
Most parents think I’m pretty annoying.
It’s mutual.
I homeschool. My kids don’t eat sugar. We don’t own a TV.
These were not random decisions. It took my own journey to arrive at them and I still think hard about them, every day, usuall...
You're worrying about the wrong thing
You can do everything right as a parent and still not be there for them.
I was enjoying the way my daughter was playing pretend. Talking softly to herself, acting out all of the voices in the scene she was role-playing. Both the nurse and...
Even the most radical parents miss this
I had strong opinions about parenting long before I had kids.
A lot of them came from what I didn’t like about the educational system I grew up in.
Not because I didn’t like school, but because of how kids are treated. How it lectures, pr...
Your kids aren’t doing a good job
I’ve been doing this successfully in coaching for years. But with my own kids, I still suck.
Yes, there are other hard things. Not jumping in. Letting them figure things out for themselves. I’m still working on those too.
But none of them...
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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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