Page 1 of Judy H. Wright's writing

1. Help Children Find Heroes and Build Character Traits Do your children know your heroes and mentors? Why do you admire them? There is very little correlation between good grades and success in life. Are you surprised? I was certainly amazed to find that of the valedictorians and the "C" or even... (posted by Judy H. 1 year 196 days ago.)

2. Step Families - You Are Not My Daddy! It is important that it takes time, effort and a great deal of patience to blend two families. Just because the adults have gone through a marriage ceremony or feel committed to each other, it does not automatically blend personalities... (posted by Judy H. 1 year 206 days ago.)

3. Stepkids Need To Do Chores Too - Helping Families Build Trust As I go around the country teaching parenting and family relationship communication, I frequently hear about step-kids having more than sibling rivalry, but outright war with each other. When adults marry, they hope that the children will get... (posted by Judy H. 1 year 206 days ago.)

4. EFT For Children- Teaching Self Soothing Techniques When you have a headache do you rub your temples or push hard with your index finger between your eyes? How about when you were upset, did you hold your belly or hug yourself tightly? Do you rub your neck when other people are literally giving you... (posted by Judy H. 1 year 206 days ago.)

5. Step-Dad Strategies To Build Better Blended Families As I travel about the country talking to parents and day care providers questions come up often about how to gain respect and unity from a blended family. Step-dads are especially concerned because they are not sure what their new role in the life... (posted by Judy H. 1 year 206 days ago.)

6. Discipline With Dad-Children Need Leadership Not Punishment To many dads spend the majority of their time with their child issuing discipline: meaning yelling, threatening or spanking when the behavior of the child is unacceptable. These Dad's may be confusing discipline, which means loving guidance and... (posted by Judy H. 1 year 206 days ago.)

7. Five Simple Ways to Say I Love You to a Child Today's families are running constantly to jobs, school, activities and community affairs. The members of the family may very well be together but not really communicating and sharing with one another. These days, many families even find it... (posted by Judy H. 1 year 206 days ago.)

8. Explaining Death to Children As I write this article, Spring is coming in Montana. The birds are singing, the grass is turning green and the whole world looks brighter and more optimistic to me. But I understand that all of life is beginnings and endings. Starts and stops.... (posted by Judy H. 1 year 206 days ago.)

9. How Children Grieve Loss and Death Elizabeth Kubler Ross in her book Children and Death states: "either knowingly or unconsciously, we pass our acquired fears along to our children and are not aware unit it is too late that those cause indescribable damage and pain." Do... (posted by Judy H. 1 year 206 days ago.)

10. Explaining Death to Children - What is Death? What is death? What does Dead Mean? These questions are some of the hardest for parents to answer, especially because most have not examined their own feelings, emotions and belief systems around death and dying. Many of the parents I teach in... (posted by Judy H. 1 year 206 days ago.)

11. Why We Get Mad - How Anger Stops Stress "I am furious at you! "You make me so mad." "I am so angry I could scream." These are all angry responses to stress in life. While becoming mad or angry may relieve some of the pressure of the moment, anger takes a price. It can cost you... (posted by Judy H. 1 year 220 days ago.)

12. Death in the Family - How to Deal With the Grief of Losing Someone Close What is dead? What if we bury Grandpa and then he wakes up? Will I die if I go to sleep? I hate him for dying, he said he would take me fishing. Death in the family is always difficult, but more so when it is someone close who is trying to deal... (posted by Judy H. 1 year 220 days ago.)

13. Could My Child Be Sexually Abusing Other Children - Juvenile Sex Offenders It is not the strangers who manipulate and prey on their sexual victims, it is someone who is usually known and respected by the family. Sexual abuse is often first committed by juvenile family members who are loved and trusted. As hormones begin... (posted by Judy H. 1 year 220 days ago.)

14. Empowering a Bystander Or Witness to Crime It's happened to all of us at one point or another. We're sitting in the office, playing on the swings, or walking our dogs and then it happens: a mugging, a purse snatching, animal mistreatment or bullying. In a split second we are drawn in a... (posted by Judy H. 1 year 220 days ago.)

15. Confidence, Character and Critical Thinking As parents our job is to teach our children how to be the person that will attract the kind of people they want to be around. As we empower them to respect and be kind to others, it will reflect on how they feel about themselves. When we teach... (posted by Judy H. 1 year 220 days ago.)

16. Encouraging Words For Teens, Adolescents and Young People Wow! Just when our children were raised and became intelligent, thoughtful and kind adults, along came our grandchildren who needed encouragement and guidance. Teens and Adolescents Need Acceptance and Encouragement Today's parents and... (posted by Judy H. 1 year 220 days ago.)

17. Luck Or Life - When Bad Things Happen to Good People Ernest Hemingway once said: "The world breaks everyone and afterward, many are strong in the broken places." When we are going through adversity, it is not always possible to believe that everyone suffers loss and heartache. It feels and acts... (posted by Judy H. 1 year 220 days ago.)

18. Discipline by Dad - 5 Tips to Build Strong Relationship With Your Child To many dads believe discipline means yelling, threatening or spanking when the behavior of the child is unacceptable. These Dads may be confusing discipline, which means loving guidance and teaching, with punishment. Punishment is punitive and... (posted by Judy H. 1 year 220 days ago.)

19. Helping Children Cope With Illness and Death of Loved One Children who have been allowed to participate in the care of loved one, including hospice care at end of life, are better prepared later in life when losses of any kind occur. Loss of a Pet For many children the first death they may... (posted by Judy H. 1 year 220 days ago.)

20. Encourage Youself to Courage- Overcome Fear, Doubts and Frustration Are You Afraid and Frustrated? If you are having difficulty turning problems into opportunities, you may be discouraged. You may have a need to build your self esteem to overcome fear, doubts and frustrations that impact the life you deserve... (posted by Judy H. 1 year 220 days ago.)

21. Indigo Children - Born to Lead, Hard to Manage As I travel the country teaching workshops for parents, teachers and day care providers I often ask them if they recognize the Indigo Children. These children are not content to color in the lines or glue macaroni on paper. They are very bright... (posted by Judy H. 1 year 268 days ago.)

22. Difficult Child or Just Having a Difficult Day? Why won't my kid behave? What makes him so angry? How can I control his angry behavior? Why is his behavior rude and obnoxious? How can we teach respect and responsibility? Are all kids his age lazy? What am I doing wrong? These are common... (posted by Judy H. 1 year 273 days ago.)

23. Definition of Bullying - An International Problem Bullying can best be defined as an imbalance of power. Whenever there is an imbalance of power or strength that is either real or perceived there is a potential for the greater power to intentionally threaten or harm the weaker one. This power... (posted by Judy H. 1 year 276 days ago.)

24. Recognizing the Six Types of Aggressive Bullies--Are You a Victim? Bullying can be described as aggressive behavior that is intentional and involves an imbalance of power or strength. Often patterns of abusive behavior becomes evident over time. Victims or targets sometimes downplay the violence and damage to... (posted by Judy H. 1 year 282 days ago.)

25. What Constitutes Respect Do you have to like or love someone to be considerate, kind and courteous? The answer to that question is simply- No. You can be respectful without agreeing with, or even liking another person. One reason this is such a vital life skill for our... (posted by Judy H. 1 year 285 days ago.)