As I wrote about in last week’s blogpost on the “Update on Leaving Home to Go Home,” this is a “rare in my life” season of intense stress. Between building a new house in Kansas over 500 miles from where we currently live, getting the Colorado house ready to sell, the whole packing and moving process, [...]
As a High S-Style parent, I couldn’t wait for my “After School Talk Time” with my children, especially when they became teens and were involved in many activities. But along with this goal, I had to learn an important lesson - that I will share a bit later in this blogpost. It reinforced my deep conviction [...]
Have you ever worked with a child who was always active, had more energy than they truly knew what to do with, while having LOTS of ideas on what they could do with all that energy and when? In other words, they are driven to be in charge and they have the ideas and the energy [...]
This month, we are looking at each DISC Style and their unique response to stress as well as practical hints on how to best alleviate that stress. So far, we have covered the “in-charge-do-it-now” High D-Style, the “fun-loving-people-focused” High I Style and the “super-patient-team-player” High S-Style. If you would like to read those past blogposts, just [...]
This month, we are looking at each DISC Style and their unique response to stress as well as practical hints on alleviating that stress. So far, we have covered the “in-charge-do-it-now” High D-Style and the “fun-loving-people-focused” High I Style. If you would like to read those past blogposts, just click here. This week, our focus is [...]
First, let me say emphatically that Christmas is one of my two top and most important times of the year. I DELIGHT in the Christmas season! But often it carries an extra level of stress when we add the extra activities, preparations, cooking, shopping, time with others, etc. Last week we looked at the High D-Style [...]
