by Leanne Wakeling | Communication and Relationship, Family, Human Behaviour, Leadership, Parenting, Perspective
We can only ever re-present the world to ourselves based on our own maps of reality, rather than reality itself. Your thoughts and the thoughts of others simply represent reality. They could never be reality itself. Everything is perception. Your map of the world will...
by Leanne Wakeling | Communication and Relationship, Family
Is it possible though that you may be missing the messages of love, because they aren’t delivered the way that you prefer to see or receive them? When we have a young family, it can seem like a whole lot of work and frustrations. We can lose connection with our...
by Leanne Wakeling | Communication and Relationship, Family, Human Behaviour, Leadership, Parenting, Perspective
Go you for coming on the journey. There are heaps of resources, though the fact you have set an intention of becoming a positive parent and avoiding the fear based old world parenting model is an awesome beginning. The most important thing to remember is that your...
by Leanne Wakeling | Communication and Relationship, Family, Human Behaviour, Leadership, Parenting, Perspective
When I hear a descriptor of backtalk, it sets my spidy senses off. What I mean by that is the parent is definitely experiencing their expectations being unmet. The problem is, that in feeling the righteous indignation of a child speaking back, that a parent misses...
by Leanne Wakeling | Communication and Relationship, Family, Parenting
At the fundamental level, the model is not that important. What is important is what type of relationship are we building with our child? So many parents get so focused on the DOING of parenting, that we can loose focus on the BEING. What I mean by that is,...
by Leanne Wakeling | Communication and Relationship, Family, Parenting
As parents, we have an opportunity, even with the tinniest of our children to begin a practice that will support them build communication skills for ongoing success Inspired by Daniel Goleman’s new newsletter, that you can find here....
by Leanne Wakeling | Family, Leadership, Parenting, Perspective
Parenting is one of the toughest and most responsible jobs in the world. The problem is, it comes with limited to no training. Certainly many of us think we “should” know what to do, after all we have been raised and are adults. The Challenge Believing we...
by Leanne Wakeling | Family, Human Behaviour, Imprint period <7, Parenting, Perspective
Is your child telling lies OR are they light on the truth? These are two different things. One of the most important takeaways to consider is that a four year old is not capable of lies, at least not in the context of deliberate intention to hide information in the...
by Leanne Wakeling | Communication and Relationship, Family, Parenting
Oh I hear you, story of my life, and what I had to learn was about why was I having this problem. I recall when I was little, that the consequence for not doing as you were told, either ended up with yelling and even a slap. My mum was a hot head and didn’t cope...
by Leanne Wakeling | Communication and Relationship, Family, Marriage, Parenting
“How to get my Partner on the Same Page” is a question I see come up frequently in the variety of parenting and other community groups I serve in. Lots of the time, its mothers of young children, who are already, tired, frustrated and overwhelmed. ...
