“Any Excuse!” It’s a phrase we often hear – usually making fun of someone, sometimes harsher to the point of ridicule or berating. I am going to use it a little bit differently here to highlight that your motivation doesn’t have to come from some grand purpose. Indeed when motivation is proving tough to find… Read more
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You Don’t “Learn by your Mistakes”
Ok maybe there is a question of semantics here but so often when things go wrong I hear people saying “oh well you learn by your mistakes!”. Well frankly most people don’t and those that do learn and improve learn from their mistakes not by them. That is to say the act of making a… Read more
The Power Of Now by Eckhart Tolle
This book is both a best seller and considered a classic particularly amongst those interested in spirituality. As a starting point I have to say that as an introduction, that along with the descriptions you might read on Amazon etc. could possibly put me off this book, but bear with me. Whilst I do like… Read more
The Five Love Languages of Children by Gary Chapman & Ross Campbell
This book was a real eye opener. As with most things, you may read some things and think “Oh yeah, that’s obvious.” The basic concept is that we all have different ways of communicating love and different preferences – different ways we show it and want to receive it. So, if you are a person… Read more
Listen Without Prejudice
Whilst this title may give away my age to some people others may find it misleading. So to clarify I mean; listen without pre-judging. There is a saying that most people listen in order to respond rather than listening to understanding and it quite neatly sums up what I mean here. There is often a… Read more
Don’t Give Up – Learn to Practice and Practice to Learn
One of the things I like most about yoga is that yogi’s, seemingly no matter how experienced, call it practice; it’s their yoga practice – it’s on-going rather than an end. If you approach things with the mindset of continually learning you accept that it may take years to learn, get better or “master” whatever… Read more
How Children Succeed by Paul Tough
Whilst I am not suggesting you entirely change your approach to parenting this book highlights how much of the current focus on cognitive stimulation provides an initial advantage which is not sustained. The author shows that other aspects of the child’s upbringing and skillset are just as important; that teaching perseverance and conscientiousness can be… Read more
You Can Be Happy No Matter What by Richard Carlson
I must confess I love this book. I re-read it often and also have it as an audio book and sometimes listen to it on long car journeys if I’m on my own. So many of us link happiness to things and situations – if I had X I’d be happy, if I achieve Y… Read more
Write from the Start by Ion Teodorescu
My six year struggled with his hand writing; it was messy and put him off doing his homework. I bought this set and introduced it as some fun activity books (which they are) After the first time he tried it he said “thanks for getting me the activity book dad, even though I know its… Read more
Did You Get Distracted?
There’s no point in arguing about it, children and for that matter many adults have short attention spans. When you ask a child to do something and come back to find them doing something completely different having not finished what you asked can be frustrating and, when repeated often, exasperating. I had a break… Read more