First Answers

Great leaders are skillful with groups of people and with individuals. Both of these important abilities are useful when it comes to resolving conflict, chaotic conditions, and other forms of alienation people feel for one another. This type of discord often results in low performance and the loss of good people who leave organizations to find something better. Establishing peace is one of the least prominent qualities of great leaders, but it is emerging as one of the most important.

Sometimes people don’t know if they would be good leaders or not. In this episode, Dr. Scoresby describes a straightforward way to assess both your potential and actual performance as a leader. Listen to the items, score yourself from one to five, and you can see your potential as a leader and see how well you’re performing.

All great leaders appear to be guided by a set of doctrines or principles that underlie the way they treat people and organize them. The eight doctrines Dr. Scoresby describes in this episode can be implemented by anyone, and they have proven to make leadership more successful.   

People of yesteryear were masters at coming up with bridge statements that motivated children to do things they might not want to do. These statements become so much a part of life that they are used for specific situations but remembered by all who hear them. Use this wisdom to help children eat what they might not want to eat.

Understand common work and home problems and how to solve them. Then see a comparison between the conditions at work and at home that will enable you to be successful in adjusting your language, emotions, and social behavior at work and at home. This adjustment will help your kids feel happier.

21st-century children deserve a new generation of parents with better tools. In this episode, Dr. Scoresby will explain the importance of understanding the role of social context. There are five elements in each social situation, and knowing these will help you understand how to keep what is important at work at work and separate that from what is important at home. Making this adaptation successfully can ensure your children’s success.

In this episode, Dr. Scoresby will explain how to help your children be socially confident by teaching them the vocabulary for many situations so they can understand more, communicate better, and be able to make smooth adaptations or adjustments. When parents do this, they are more likely to have confident children who are respectful and successful with their friends.

One of the worst experiences for children is to be misjudged by their parents and falsely accused. This often leads to feelings of worthlessness, injustice, and anger. To avoid this, Dr. Scoresby will explain four different reasons why children act as they do, the cues that will tell you about each, and how to respond successfully to each. It will make you more just and fair and help you avoid hurting your children.

Even with all the openness in our world about sex, there is still evidence that many parents are not teaching their children about it. In this episode, Dr. Scoresby explains how to create a positive conversation relationship on the topic and how to adapt your teaching to your children’s ages and stages of development. They need more help from us.

Emotional self-reliance is, at its core, the name for ordinary development and growth into adulthood, but it’s becoming a hot topic these days because we’re seeing a rise in depression, anxiety, suicide, and other kinds of problems that indicate emotional self-reliance is not occurring for more and more people. In this interview, Dr. Scoresby begins a discussion about how parents can promote this normal course of development so kids learn to achieve, learn moral behavior, have successful relationships, learn how to deal with adversity, and more that leads them to a happy, healthy life.