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Free Range vs Strict Parents: Is Spanking Your Kids Ever Okay?
Is spanking your kids ever ok? This is an often asked question at my talks. Some great discussion around parenting. Please check out the video. I made a video on this topic. Is spanking ok? | Should I spank my children? - Click here for the video or it should open...
Media Savvy Moms: ESTABLISHING A STRONG FOUNDATION (my interview)
I had the chance to be on the Parents Aware podcast recently. Click the link below to hear the entire interview. This is also a good podcast to subscribe to. Do you ever get the feeling that society views kids as troublemakers, and parents as the good guys? We need to...
Step Inside the Circle
Really powerful 7 min. So many issues to think about from this video. As someone who speaks to parents, I really want to challenge us to be better parents. Watch the video and see how many times they "stepped forward" due to things that parents could have done...
The Importance of Sharing Responsibility with Your Kids
Really enjoyed this article. So, how do we as adults (especially parents) avoid taking too much responsibility or control over our kids’ lives? Too often, we are the culprits preventing students from owning their responsibilities because of the way we interact with...
Time to update your monthly budget
Over the past month our lives have been dramatically changed no matter where you live and work. With so many people out of work I thought I would post a blank version of a budget spreadsheet that my wife and I use. With so many people anxious about finances it is good...
Brett Ullman… Live
The past few weeks have been historic with changes to our way of life, work, church, and family. As someone whose full-time job is to speak to groups, it has challenged me to create other ways to reach my audiences. Yesterday, I did my first Facebook live for a...
Reverse Engineering our next few months |Simple LIfe Hack
Great concept ... Reverse Engineering. I first want to acknowledge that all of us are struggling during this tough time. My heart goes out to many of you who are presently or soon to be facing being laid off. Many others from emergency services, health care, transit,...
Social Media Dangers Exposed by Mom Posing as 11-Year-Old
This is a short 10 min video that I would encourage everyone to watch. We must make sure we are engaging our tweens and teens in conversations on topics of online safety, sex, pornography, and sex trafficking. A 37-year old mom goes undercover as an 11-year old girl...
men… watching your kids and doing chores is not heroic or exceptional
This video is a short challenge (rant) against some of the language we use for fathers and husbands in our society today. I want to help men be better fathers and husbands and some of the language we use makes basic things men do seem heroic or even exceptional when...
what do you do when your child forgets something? | easy Parenting Tips
Parenting Tips. This video answers a question I get sometimes during q&a at my talks. I seem to give an answer that is different from the many parenting books I read. So many of the books seem to just tell the kids to suffer. I disagree. Check out the video and...
