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Beyond Wealth: 7 Essential Habits for Children’s Success

One of the greatest legacies you can offer your children in parenting transcends the confines of material wealth. Nurturing invaluable habits and their unseen wealth equip children for a life of success and fulfillment. In this journey of upbringing, let’s delve into seven pivotal practices that hold more significance and long-term value than any tangible ...

Max Lu

Young married couple with their toddler.

Endurance and Hard Work: Preparing Children for Life’s Obstacles

As parents, it’s our instinct to love and support our children to set them up for a happy, successful life. Yet, an old saying warns that “too much of a good thing is not good.” In your attempts to shield your children from life’s harsh realities, you may unintentionally prevent them from undertaking challenging experiences ...

Haidene Go

Happy brother and sister leap into the air while holding hands outside by a pond.

Homemaking Skills 101: What You Need to Learn

Homemaking skills are essential for most people. The problem is that some people learn when it’s too late. Before that happens, discover the critical life skills you need to know for your home. If you’ve never been taught the basic homemaking skills needed to survive, it’s never too late to try. You can learn a ...

Mike West

Learning how to cook.

How To Handle Criticism in a Positive Way

Dealing with criticism is a challenging yet essential life skill. Building your sense of self-worth takes years, and an ill-received comment can destroy all that. But in life, you’ll inevitably get criticized by your boss, coworkers, family, or even strangers. It would help if you learned to handle it expertly because it’s essential for personal ...

Nathan Machoka

Blocks spelling 'criticism.'

12 Essential Skills Every Child Should Learn

Children’s grades at school will never be as important as learning such essential skills as how to be grateful and how to behave themselves. A Chinese proverb says: “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” So it’s better ...

Kathy McWilliams

A smiling boy with brown hair and brown eyes.

Practice Makes Perfect

Regardless of your area of expertise, there is always room for improvement. This is especially true if you’re a professional in the performing arts. It’s nearly impossible to be happy with constant rehearsals. There are bound to be days when you’re not at 100 percent or maybe not even at 50 percent. On those days, ...

Jessica Kneipp

A violin bow lying on sheet music.

Focus: The One Skill to Rule Them All

The sound of car horns honking, the chattering of two loudmouths, deafening pop music blaring away from somewhere, the problems that we deal with inside our heads, tasks piling up — all these external and internal distractions make it hard to focus. When most of us try to sit in silence and attempt to clear our ...

Armin Auctor

A man finding it hard to focus working on a laptop.

The Key to Reversing Your Apparent Misfortunes

This is a true story about a poor young man who turned around his apparent misfortunes. He traveled to Paris to look for a good friend of his father’s, found him, and asked the man if he could help him get a job. “Are you proficient in math?” the friend asked. The young man shook ...

Helen London

A Paris street and buildings.

Looking for Work? Here’s a Company That Hires Anyone Who Applies

What if you were looking for work, applied for a job, and the company hired you right away, with no background checks or comparison done with other interviewees? Such a hiring practice is catching on among several businesses. Known as Open Hiring, applicants join the company purely on a “first come, first hired” basis. Open ...

Nspirement Staff