“You are the worst parent” or “I hate you!!” How often do we hear our kids accuse us of this! 

No parent likes hearing these words but hey, if you are, take heart for you may be on the right path and doing something right! Do we want our kids approval all the time? Do we want them to get discipline and structure so as to arm them with values that will really help them later on in their life? What’s the balance? Friend vs. Parent . . . 

 Hop on to my musings on what might strike the right balance in this delicate mix

\"Don't throw like a girl!\" or \"he's bad at math because I hated it!\" - how often have we casually made such simple innocuous statements. More importantly, how often are we even aware that these words have dropped from our lips?!

Do you know that if you call your daughter - \"a brooding teenager\" - even if she wasn't, chances are that she will start behaving like one?

Hop on to my musings on what stereotypes we tend to use and get some perspective on the effect it has on kids - in this case my 16 yr. old and her thoughts about it

How many of us see boredom as an opportunity to open the mind to creative or lateral thinking? To get in touch with and centre ourselves? Or to simply really hear ourselves??

Here's an interesting quote to perhaps give us perspective -
\"Children need to sit in their own boredom for the world to become quiet enough that they can hear themselves\" – Dr Vanessa Lapointe

This podcast is all about looking at boredom and digging deeper with my 11 yr. old on what his thoughts are about it