For years, I questioned my effectiveness as a mother, especially with my two younger children. If any of you are parents, or have a close relationship with several children from the same family, you will no doubt agree with me that they can be vastly different from each other. And just when you start to figure [...]
I confess - two of my children have to continually remind me of this... because my positive enthusiasm often goes against their quieter nature. In fact, this blogpost may be more important for me to remember than any others I’ve shared so far. As we go through the Adult to Child Relationship series, the combination we [...]
First and foremost, we pray for the people in Ukraine - for the men fighting the war, for the women and children trying to escape. I strongly believe in the power of united prayer - and ask you to please join me in seeking God's intervention in this evil. Then back to our process of the [...]
As we go through the Adult to Child Series, the combination we will discuss this week is the High I Adult and the High D Child. As a reminder: High I - is the “party looking for a place to happen”, fun-loving, outgoing, people-focused, enthusiastic, very positive person High D- is the take charge, fast-paced, must [...]
Hooray and Finally - Let’s BEGIN! As Dr. Charles Boyd states in his excellent book, Different Children, Different Needs [affiliate link], “outside of God’s Word, the insights I’ve gained through the DISC model are the most important body of information I possess.” So it was extremely exciting to get permission from the publisher of this book [...]
My apologies for interrupting our Hiring Process blog posts, but a member of our Family Circle passed on this past week. Indeed, we had an enormous loss in our family - my youngest brother's wife passed on from FTD, Frontal Temporal Degeneration. It slowly steals someone's mental capabilities, then their physical ones. It had been a [...]
