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You Can Have Excellent Listening Skills!

Andrea Ramsay Speers

communication, encouragement, marriage, nagging, newsletter, parenting, stress, teens, tweens

Any psychotherapist will tell you that one of the biggest problems they see among their clients is poor listening skills. People get into trouble in their relationships [...]

Happiness At Home Newsletter: What Makes Us Procrastinate?

Andrea Ramsay Speers

depression, encouragement, mental health, nagging, newsletter, parenting, Pet Peeves, self esteem, stress, teens, tweens

All of us procrastinate on occasion. For some people, it’s a chronic problem; for others, it’s only a problem in certain life areas. Procrastination is always frustrating [...]

A Few Of My Favourite Books

Andrea Ramsay Speers

announcements, anxiety, bullying, chores, communication, couples, depression, encouragement, entitlement, friendship, happy families, marriage, mental health, nagging, parenting, self esteem, stress, teens, tweens

Looking for something to keep you busy over the next few weeks? Books can be a great way to get information, get inspiration and new ideas, and to keep momentum going between [...]

Put That Away!

Andrea Ramsay Speers

chores, communication, nagging, parenting, Pet Peeves, stress, teens, tweens

One of most parents’ pet peeves is seeing stuff lying all over the house. Stepping over shoes in the doorway, or seeing dirty dishes on the counter, or the remains of an arts [...]

10Feb

Family Meeting How-To’s

Andrea Ramsay Speers

chores, communication, gratitude, happy families, keeping kids out of trouble, nagging, parenting, Pet Peeves, stress, teens, tweens

Family meetings can be one of your best discipline strategies as a parent. Here’s what your kids learn from participating in family meetings: Listening skills Brainstorming [...]

Lowered Expectations

Andrea Ramsay Speers

anxiety, chores, communication, encouragement, happy families, mental health, nagging, parenting, self esteem, stress

As parents, we set pretty high standards for ourselves. When we’re expecting our first child, we plan on having a child who listens, who is patient while we’re shopping, who [...]

18Nov

Out-Of-The-Box Encouragement

Andrea Ramsay Speers

communication, encouragement, happy families, nagging, parenting, Pet Peeves, school, self esteem, stress, teens, tweens

We’ve talked before about how important encouragement is for kids. It contributes to healthy self esteem, it fosters courage and a willingness to make a mistake but try again, [...]

7 Habits Of Highly Effective Communicators

Andrea Ramsay Speers

communication, couples, happy families, nagging, parenting, Pet Peeves, stress, teens, tweens

Many of us take our communication style for granted. We just say what we’re thinking. We might assume that what we’re thinking is “common sense.” Maybe we don’t give much [...]

Say What You Mean And Mean What You Say

Andrea Ramsay Speers

chores, communication, happy families, nagging, parenting, Pet Peeves, teens, tweens

Following through as a parent is hard. Who among us has not threatened to cancel Christmas or a vacation, knowing full well that we’d never do it? Who hasn’t said to [...]

Time To Think

Andrea Ramsay Speers

communication, happy families, nagging, parenting, Pet Peeves, teens, tweens

In the daily grind of making lunches, arriving on time, homework, and all of the other activities that fill our days, it can be easy to lose sight of our big-picture parenting [...]