http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Mac+Bledsoe Parenting Mac Bledsoe Thu, 13 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=14867&ca=Parenting It does not matter where the ideas come from, and it doesn't matter whether they are right or wrong, once an idea is in your head, it will rule your world. Only a few months ago I gave a keynote address to 3,000 people at a regional parenting conference. In the talk I had mentioned the difficulties... Parenting Mac Bledsoe Thu, 13 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=14869&ca=Parenting We must eliminate from our minds a few phrases when we are making decisions about how we will be raising our kids. They are the sayings like: "When I was a kid..." and "If I had done that when I was a kid, my dad would have..." or "Back when we were in school they used to..." Now, this may sound odd... Parenting Mac Bledsoe Thu, 13 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=14870&ca=Parenting A little examination of two behaviors, which are learned almost universally by all Americans, reveals some shocking information about the effectiveness of some of the teaching techniques that we choose to use to educate our children. In the last six months we have been conducting a little informal s... Parenting Mac Bledsoe Thu, 13 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=14871&ca=Parenting In today's society like in the past, kids have heroes. This is a good thing. However, in modern society it seems the process of selecting heroes has become rather muddled or confused. Fame should not necessarily make a person a hero. We have experienced this from both sides: first as parents of two...