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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...