Happy Parenting Empowering your family

I often say, we are all part of a team at home, a FAMILY TEAM.  Ours is Team Max.  I’m hoping yours is all about you and your family. Do you operate as a team? Sometimes we are very effective and sometimes not so much. Looking around there are so many teams with a winning formula that we could model at home to empower our families to work together as a successful team.  Geese work together when flying south for the winter to travel further, they support each other and play to their strengths.   What 5 attributes can we ...

When I ask parents in our online community, ‘What’s raising kids all about? Why are you doing it? What are you trying to achieve?’ The answer is normally, ‘We’re trying to raise happy, healthy kids. We want our kids to be decent human beings.’ But when we are knee deep in family life, it can be difficult to keep an eye on the bigger picture. We are so focused on everything that needs to be done in our never-ending to-do list, and we’re responding to the daily dramas that inevitably arise throughout the day. But keeping an eye on the bigger picture ...