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“Television can be videotaped but children are best raised live and in person.” - Frank Sesno, Emmy award winning journalist and Dad of 3.  Also known as "Mr. Breakfast" (to his kids at least!) Will you go out with me? Will you marry me? Do you want to have kids? The questions we ask each other have the power to change the course of our lives forever.  In this interview with Frank Sesno, an Emmy award winning journalist and author of Ask More, we draw upon Frank’s experience as a father and an expert questioner to figure out how we can use...

"It’s easy to forget that the world we live in is scary to us as adults who know things let alone these kids who have never been through it." - Matt Heinz, husband, dad, and renowned marketing expert   You can listen to the whole interview here or read the article below.   <span style="color: #88b04b;"><b></b></span> <h3 class="p2" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #88b04b;"><b>Meet Matt</b></span></h3> <p class="p1">In anticipation of Father's Day, I sat down with one rockstar dad, Matt Heinz.</p> <p class="p1">Matt is dad to three: Clara is 8, Nicky is 6 and Evan is 3 years old.  He lives on a farm in Kirkland, Washington,...

  An interview with renowned play therapist and mother Cheryl Shanahan In our modern world, when walking down a Toys R Us aisle reminds us of a boardwalk arcade, it can be easy to forget that sometimes the healthiest toy for our child is a simple cardboard box. We sat down with renowned play therapist and mother of two, Cheryl Shanahan, to hash out the key principles of healthy play.  It turns out that optimizing play with our children can be very easy to do.  We may just need to be reground in a plateau of simplicity. Cheryl is a play therapist, an expert in analyzing children's...

When we tell our child "don't be shy", we are actually being critical of our child.  When we are critical of our child, we are only hurting them.   Science and history show us that criticism causes (1) resentment in our child (2) aggression in our child and (3) our child to engage in the exact behavior we criticize when we are not around. Our goal for our child's behavior  As parents, we are aiming to raise our children to make good decisions when we are not around.   Does criticism accomplish this? Not at all.  How criticism affects our child's behavior We are likely using criticism as...