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Category Archives: Relations

Five Communication Mistakes Almost Every Couple Makes

Five Communication Mistakes Almost Every Couple MakesBy:  Melanie Pinola

No matter how in tune you are with your partner, misunderstandings and communication gaffes are always possible. Here are five of the most common, yet avoidable communication mistakes that could harm a relationship.

Some types of communication are more obvious signs your relationship might be doomed: extreme criticism, defensiveness, contempt, and stonewalling. Today let’s talk about the more subtle ways we might not be communicating as well as we could with our partners—and how to avoid them.

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7 Crippling Parenting Behaviors That Keep Children From Growing Into Leaders

Kathy Caprino

While I spend my canstockphoto3580131professional time now as a career success coach, writer, and leadership trainer, I was a marriage and family therapist in my past, and worked for several years with couples, families, and children. Through that experience, I witnessed a very wide array of both functional and dysfunctional parenting behaviors. As a parent myself, I’ve learned that all the wisdom and love in the world doesn’t necessarily protect you from parenting in ways that hold your children back from thriving, gaining independence and becoming the leaders they have the potential to be.

I was intrigued, then, to catch up with leadership expert Dr. Tim Elmore and learn more about how we as parents are failing our children today — coddling and crippling them — and keeping them from becoming leaders they are destined to be. Tim is a best-selling author of more than 25 books, including Generation iY: Our Last Chance to Save Their Future, Artificial Maturity: Helping Kids Meet the Challenges of Becoming Authentic Adults, and the Habitudes® series. He is Founder and President of Growing Leaders, an organization dedicated to mentoring today’s young people to become the leaders of tomorrow.
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Most truthful love card nowadays

There Is Nobody Else I'd Rather Lie In Bed and Look At My Phone Next To / Valentine Card No. 208-C

How to get your boss support

Criticizing behavior not people