Many new parenting styles create an imbalance in the child/parent relationship. 
When we adopt a parenting style that is child-led and emotion driven, we do a disservice to our children by hyper focusing on how they feel and what they want rather than teaching them how to think and how to feel and express their feelings in an appropriate way while learning the good habits or virtues that are the foundation of thinking, feeling, and acting.

In Virtue Based Parenting, we 

1.   Recognize that we are the leaders of our children and that we are their first and most important teachers.

2.  We seek self-growth in virtue in order to better model those virtues for our children and as a point of connection with each child.

3.  We are proactive in establishing our parenting and home life goals and we communicate our expectations clearly and consistently. We react calmly and thoughtfully to our children’s misbehavior seeking ultimately to fulfill our long-term goals rather than simply implementing short-term solutions.

4.  We focus on formation through lived virtues, understanding that virtue, or good habits, is the foundation of excellent moral, spiritual, and practical goals.

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New crayons, new backpacks, a special breakfast for the first day of school - these often accompany a new year as our children go back to school.  But…whether you see it or not, whether your children say it or not – and they probably won’t – here’s what they really want and need for success in school and in life.

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This episode airs on the Feast of the Assumption of Mary, the Mother of Jesus – when Mary was taken up into heaven to be with her son.

And so while so many moms in my audience are going through the chaos of back-to-school, I thought I’d record this episode as a reminder to all of us, that we have in Mary, the mother of Jesus, the perfect role model of the woman, the wife and mother, and the friend we are called to be.

For my non-Catholic friends in the audience, I want to explain why Catholics and many other Christians honor Mary.

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I think it’s important to see the cultural shifts that affect our families.

Shifts in what used to be some issues for a few, now are so common place that EVERYONE suffers or deals with them.

Serious issues are now considered normal or easily accepted and have become commonplace in our families.

As soon as we make something common place – something we’ve said or thought so many times that we just think it is true – we’ve lost the control to make the decisions of how we want to live or change and how we want our children to live or our family dynamic to look.

We voluntarily become victims.

I know that some people deal with ADHD, anxiety or other issues and some people’s children do.

But we can’t be in this victim mentality where we feel the need to quickly diagnose and either medicate or get therapy to help.

Ask yourself, what else could this be?

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School success for your children depends on what happens inside the classroom AND outside the classroom.  In this replay episode I talk about the most important habits to teach your children so they can love school and achieve all they're meant to achieve.

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As Michael and I celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary, and as our 2nd daughter gets married, I had an opportunity to reflect on what really makes a great marriage.  This episode talks about the #1 secret to great marriages.

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One of the biggest problems we have is that we have "dreams" or "expectations" about how our life, relationships, the behavior of our children, and our home culture should be.  They're just fantasies with no clear actions to create them.  Setting goals helps us act in the here and now to create the life we really want.

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Whatever form "evil" takes in your life - sadness, anger, unmet expectations, St. Josemaria's advice to "Drown Evil in an Abundance of Good" works!

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We seem to always want to attack or find fault with people – with ourselves, with our husband, our children, our parents or in-laws.

But if we take the “personal” away from assessing the situation, it’s so much more neutral.  

And when a situation is neutralized, we can let go of the flight or flight emotions we have and we can actually find solutions to a problem – rather than just blaming and holding someone at fault.

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You can find my parenting course, "Virtue-Based Parenting" at janetquinlan.com/parentingcourse

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