I want to show you the praise skills in live action, on children, at school in a class.

And watch their faces as their smiles beam from ear to ear.

You can also do this, consciously and intelligently by learning these skills!

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1. Do you also experience praising your children at times and they just don't believe you?
2. Are you making the same mistake as this parent in the way she is praising?
3. Do you know how to avoid the most common mistake when praising your children?

 This video clip shares how to avoid making those same mistakes.

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I have often wondered what it is that gets these parents these results. Cooperation, trust, flow, harmony. I think I know at least one answer. To get these results, this is what you have to understand, and do.

“I walked in to the bathroom where my twin sons were having a bath. There was water on the floor, water on the mirror and my sons’ four year old faces grinning up at me. I asked them who had splashed water on the floor. No one said anything. I told them I wasn’t going to punish them, that I just wanted them to be honest.”

I said I wasn't going punish them, but that was because I didn't understand that emotionally I was punishing them far more than a smack or "No TV tonight!"

And this is why..

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33 years after my mother died (when I was 7 she died), I find out she knitted some clothes for MY children (which would be her grandchildren). Out of the blue I have something made from her own hands.

Your child keeps nagging you to sleep in your bed with you?

Robin shared how he solved that in his own home, and Amanda decided to try it out. And it worked.

See the video clip of her sharing her new found skills.

Brad asks this question regarding some of the everyday challenges he faces in being a parent: "Is this going to be my life for the next 20 years?" and everyone laughs because we all seem to have these kinds of days.

This video clip is taken from the workshop session on "The introduction to Intelligent parenting". And when parents have finished the session, we ask them what they got from the session and what they are going to take away from it.

See what Brad shares with relief.

I ask the parents in the workshop, "Why are you here tonight?". This stumps many of them. Some reply back humorously, "I asked my wife the same thing. I thought we were perfect parents."

Amidst the grins and chuckles, my reply to them is to share why I WAS THERE that night, what could I offer and what could become possible for each and every parent there.

1.    If things are not working for an intelligent parent, they do not just resign themselves to accepting the way things are.
2.    They know they can have it all, while still enjoying the meaningful connections to their children and other family members.
3.    They have a deep respect for themselves and for other others and for life.
4.    They know that they have the responsibility to make it work in their family relationships and keep striving to make things happen.
5.    Intelligent parents take action.  They do not stay in a place of complaining about how 'hectic or difficult their children are.

see the video clip (4 minutes) of this introduction to Intelligent Parenting session.