Tools to Build your Family

Recently, I posted my first video of my new video series, "Tools to Build your Family."

The first in the series is the key tool, "Be Consistent." Many of the moms and dads I've interviewed stated this was the wisdom they learned when their children were young.

I have so much to say! With all the research done in areas of behavior, time management, decision-making, etc. to help parents, it will be easy to make short videos of helpful advice.

The series will complement the 7 small books, only 59 pages each, I've written to reach today's parents and grandparents raising children.

So check it out, subscribe, sign on to Google to leave a comment. Let me know what you think. We all have wisdom to share to make parenting easier.

Parents Mad at President Obama

Obama raised fear in the hearts of parents across the United States by announcing a talk to students. After a campaign, not so long ago, that had the major television networks praising every step he took, I can understand their fear. What is his agenda? Is he going to turn our children into Democrats? Liberals? No, school teachers are more likely to do that. College professors will definitely try.

So, today is the big day of the talk. I just read the speech at http://news-public.com/. I did not see any propaganda that I don't already promote in my book, 25 Ways to Encourage Good Behavior from the Single Parent Wisdom series. Obama simply encourages children to take responsibility for their actions and realize they control their fate, no matter the situation. Now we need their parents to do the same.

Not a very Democratic speech. Most of the time, this President tells us to rely on the government to fix all our problems. Personally, I prefer to rely on myself and hope for less government interference. Perhaps after he says the speech out loud to the students and cameras, he will realize he could promote less government, not more. We can only hope.

For my book series, Single Parent Wisdom, I asked over 50 single parents with children now grown to reflect on what worked and what didn't while raising their children. Compiling their answers and adding mine, I found 7 areas of advice recurring from their answers:

1. Be Consistent.
2. Be Patient & Loving.
3. Time is Short.
4. Be Age-Appropriate.
5. Reduce the Chaos.
6. Be a Role Model.
7. Live in the Present.
   

I list these at the beginning of each of the 16 books, starting with "25 Ways to Encourage Good Behavior."