Life Skills Day with Brazilian Exchange Students
A day filled with fun, learning, recreation, and hands-on experience for our 24 Brazilian exchange students… that’s what we did. Here’s a little glimpse into our unique “Life Skills Day.”
Rejoice. When You Hear Something Nice, Pass It On
When you hear something nice about someone, what do you do with that compliment? Here’s what our family did to rejoice with our son’s college roommate.
Dinner Time is a Great Time to Evaluate Social Skills
The family dinner table is a place to be intentional to develop communication and people skills. Dine together often. And as you do, use it as a time to continually assess communication skills. In yesterday’s blog post I talked about equipping the kids with skills to help in situations where a group conversation may be dominated by…
Training Ahead: What about the Interrupter?
Today, I’m going to talk about another type of TRAINING AHEAD: Anticipating potential situations that could occur according to observations in patterns of behavior and specifically training ahead to know how to wisely handle them. Have you ever been with friends where someone dominates the conversation? Or the wife continually interrupts the husband? Or someone “one-ups”…
Training Ahead: Church Behavior 1
We’ve all sat in church near a family that was blind to their noises and commotion. You know what I mean… the candy wrappers, the feet kicking the back of the pew, the sound of markers squeaking or crayons going back and forth on paper… and that’s not even to mention talking, laughing, getting up and down…