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Tag Archives: Teaching
Brown M&Ms in Parenting
Yesterday I posted a blog on how brown M&Ms hinder sales and business. Here’s the story.
Remember the rock band Van Halen? On tour, the band would show up with nine 18-wheelers full of gear. Because of the technical complexity, the band’s standard contract for venues was thick and convoluted. It required the venue’s stagehands to pay close attention the contract’s details in order to properly prep for the band’s arrival. If the venue did not do their due diligence in reading the contract it compromised Van Halens’ ability to setup in time for the show.
In a stroke of genius, Van Halen’s lead singer, David Lee Roth, embedded an obscure clause in the middle of the contract that became known as clause 126 and read something like this: “There will be no brown M&Ms in the backstage area, upon pain of forfeiture of the show, with full compensation.”
Posted in Communication, Family
Tagged Communication, Raising Children, Teaching, Teenagers
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Parent’s Pain Priority Plan
Parenting is a shuffling act when things go well, but when life backs up like bad plumbing, even chaos is a welcomed friend. What each parent needs is a Parenting plan that prioritizes what will inevitably come – pain. Pain me now or pain me later. The one certain aspect of parenting is that you will have pain.
It’s 25 minutes past bed time and your 8 year-old-crumb-crunchin’ piece of energy gets out of bed and taps you on the shoulder as you finally settle down to watch your favorite TV program.
Decision time: pain avoidance or pain priority.
The You Pyramid
Sitting deep as the root cause of many a broken marriage or teenager gone prodigal is the lack of knowledge and skill of how to be anything different. Being like everyone else is a metaphor for failure.
The You Pyramid™ is a skill set and a knowledge base. It’s where people who want happiness and joy in relationships are found. The You Pyramid™ is the anti-thesis of The Me Pyramid™.
The You Pyramid™ consists of four layers.
- Teach
- Trust
- Listen
- See
Sandwiched between each pyramid is the word tell. It serves as a tipping point to either pyramid.
Posted in Communication
Tagged Communication, Effective Communication, Family communication, Parenting, Teaching
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3 Things Parents Should Never Do…Part 3
Three Things Parents Should Never Do When Communicating with Teenagers
Part 3
There are three things a parent should avoid when communicating with their precious minds full of mush (teenagers).
- Never seek agreement
- Never justify
- Never blame
Blaming can often been seen as a hierarchal struggle for survival in a family, from the oldest sibling down to the youngest child. In our family the dog is in play and some years ago, blaming escalated to such a level that Cheri and I discovered a resident ghost named Ralph causing all sorts of mischief in our home.
Posted in Communication, Family
Tagged Avoid fighting, Conflict, Effective Communication, Family, Teaching, Teenagers
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Searching for Agreement in School and in the Home
Searching for Agreement in the Classroom and in the Home
During my High School years, whenever we had a substitute it was another way of turning the dogs loose. We tore the teacher to pieces. That is unless the substitute carried boundaries into the classroom. Pity the poor teacher that started class trying to be nice and friendly. That’s like dangling a bleeding lamb over a starving den of lions.
Parents of toddlers find themselves torn between wanting to surrender to the cuteness of their offspring and knowing that the word “brat” is another name for a child raised with no discipline. Not only do brats create stress in others – they themselves are unhappy.
Posted in Family
Tagged Agreement, Agreement vs understanding, Teachers, Teaching, Understanding
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Financial Blueprint
Our nation has an incredible heritage. Her historical blueprint is not well understood and therefore we exist in a current political maelstrom. Those who remember her past are in a battle with those who do not. Rather than see the end first and work toward it striving to do what is right, the vision among our elected officials is short-sighted with the motivation of I’m right.
Each of us has our own financial blueprint. Our values, standards, and very importantly, our relationship with money was created at a young age. In fact, take your mind back to when you were between 6 and 9 years of age. What did you know about money? How did your parents relate with money and what did they teach you?
Mike Stork’s Funeral
Yesterday I did something I have never done before. I voluntarily attended a funeral. I met this man a few years ago on a Wallyball court at the Gig Harbor Athletic Club. I’ve been playing Wallyball with this group of people since 1996. Most of them are current or retired teachers, a general contractor, and a few other miscellaneous trades mixed in. But the predominate flavor of the group is teaching.
There is something about Wallyball (and Volleyball) that brings out the competitor in me. It’s like a transformation happens when I stoop to enter the racquetball court and engage in setting, spiking and bumping. Wallyball is a fast-paced game played in a racquetball court using a racquetball that is the size of a volleyball. The walls and ceiling are in play for the most part and the rules are very similar to volleyball.