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Covert Competition: The Game You Didn’t Agree to Play

Friendly competition is energising.

It makes you run faster, think smarter, and push harder because you know the other person is doing the same.  Everyone knows the race is on, and the wins push both sides higher.

Covert competition is different. There’s no handshake at the starting line. No mutual respect. Just someone quietly keeping score while trying to tilt the field so you never notice you’re playing.

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Stay At Home Mom Daily Schedule – A new way of scheduling

A traditional daily schedule doesn’t work for a stay at home mom with a baby. Here’s a form of scheduling I came up with instead to create some order among the chaos. Or at least a sense of accomplishment.

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Helping Children Cope With Moving

I am writing to ask for tips on how to help children cope with moving. Because moving is so much more than just physically moving from one home to another. It’s all the relationships, the bonds, the routines with people with whom they spend their days. In my daughter’s case, it’s even the language.

Parenting Phrases to Develop a Growth Mindset in Toddlers

Parenting Phrases to Develop a Growth Mindset

I want to raise my daughter with a growth mindset. What is that? In a nutshell, it’s about believing that your intelligence and personality can be developed. You can affect your outcome.

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What is the Role of a Parent?

What is a parent’s role?

Every culture has its iteration of what it means to be a parent. What is the parent’s job? In Italy many children stay home until they’re married. So, the role of a parent extends far beyond say, in Australia…