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ADHD Must Be Contagious

Active little boy laughing - that's not ADHD

Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) is very trendy. If you search on Google, you will see that there are 34,800,000 hits for it (this is today, but I am sure tomorrow it there will be more, if only because I am adding this post…). It is amazing that as the years goes by, the percentage of kids and people with ADHD goes up.

Do you have an explanation to this?

In this post, let me try to give you some explanation to this inflation in the diagnosis of ADHD.

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Published: February 8, 2008 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: April 21, 2020In: Health / Wellbeing, Parenting, Education / Learning, Opinion, Kids / Children Tags: auditory, kids / children, visual, attention deficit / add / adhd, health / wellbeing, food, teaching / teachers, communication styles, learning styles, diet, eating disorders, body image, neurolinguistic programmiing / NLP, fat, hyperactive, k-12 education, digital, kinesthetic

Kids Coaching? Of Course!

Girl smiling and playing guitar - kids coaching can do this for you too

Why wait until your kids are 40 and miserable? Is it not better to give them a head start in life?

Why let them develop ineffective habits? Is it not better to help them develop powerful ones instead?

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Published: February 7, 2008 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: March 18, 2021In: Life Coaching, Parenting, Education / Learning, Emotional Intelligence, Kids / Children Tags: education / learning, practical parenting / parents, emotional intelligence, kids coaching, happiness, motivation, kids / children

Dare to Dream

Cocktail on a tropical beach

For many people, dreams are the fluffy clouds we see at night when we go to sleep (well, in fact, only the visual people imagine a picture while dreaming).

Another dream in daily use is the wish. We wish for things and by this we tell our subconscious that this is what we want.

Every special event in our life triggers dreams in peoples’ mind. Birthdays, a new job, moving to a new house, a new year and every other new thing that has a feeling of a beginning, has the power to trigger such dreams.

Funny, but we can, if we dare, dream every day of our life.

Every day is the first day of the rest of your life

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Published: February 6, 2008 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: March 18, 2021In: Personal Development, Parenting, Kids / Children Tags: goals / goal setting, success, neurolinguistic programmiing / NLP, love languages

Proud as a Peacock

Peacock

My daughter is celebrating her 19th birthday this week. It is an exciting time for us both. Can you imagine? 19 years!

Sometimes, when I try to remember her crawling on the floor or saying her first words (which was early, very early), I have only vague memories.

She is so big now (she is taller than me, but that is easy), yet she is still young and acts like a child. She is so mature, yet she is naïve.

Our kids’ birthdays are a wonderful way for us to take stock of our parenting. Every year, they grow and mature and learn about themselves, we do too. We learn about our achievements or our challenges and it makes us better people, better parents.

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Published: February 5, 2008 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: March 18, 2021In: Parenting, Teens / Teenagers, Beautiful people, Emotional Intelligence Tags: motivation, teen books, kids / children, teens / teenagers, practical parenting / parents, mother, father, mom, dad, happiness

The Parent as a Life Coach

Mother and daughter happy outdoors

Bringing kids into this world is a selfish act. Yes, I know most people cringe at this point, but think about it, you brought your kids to life for you, not for them. They did not exist when you made your decision to have them.

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A good parenting system I have found to be very successful is that of being your kids’ life coach. Here are some of the rules of coaching that can be 100% applicable in parenting.

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Published: January 29, 2008 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: December 24, 2019In: Life Coaching, Parenting Tags: positive attitude tips, focus, values, negative, empowerment, motivation, Life Coaching, family matters

Happy Parents Raise Happy Kids

Parents and 2 little kids on a part bench

Parenting (especially teenage parenting) is undoubtedly the most challenging adventure in a person’s life. Remember the first hours of being a mother or a father? The unconditional love you had for this tiny new creature that did nothing but eat, sleep and cry, coupled with the enormous load of the new responsibility, from which there was no escape. A bit overwhelming, wasn’t it? For some parents, even a bit scary sometimes. Who can you turn to for parenting advice?

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Published: January 25, 2008 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: November 29, 2022In: Parenting, Education / Learning, Opinion Tags: work life balance, practical parenting / parents, mother, father, mom, dad, parent coaching, Life Coaching

Who Am I?

Shy Asian ballerina by the mirror

What we think about ourselves is what we call our “Self Concept”. If you want to discover yours, simply ask yourself: Who am I?

This seemingly simple question is big, really big. Of course, your answers may be different, but most people include: social roles, physical appearance, health, relationships, location, achievements and skills.

How do we form this self concept?

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Published: January 24, 2008 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: December 24, 2019In: Personal Development, Life Coaching, Parenting Tags: positive attitude tips, self confidence / self esteem / self worth, focus, values, role model, negative, identity

Things I Want My Kids to Know: Shoot!

Wayne Gretzky

Statistically, 90% of all people do not have any goals in life. Life happens to them instead of them controlling their own destiny. I want my kids to be in the other 10%. This is so important, that all millionaires and billionaires have goals, but the difference is that billionaires read their goals more times each day.

The reason most people in our world are not successful is that they do not distinguish between being alive and living. Whereas being alive is watching a hockey game, living is actually playing.

This post is part 2 of 7 in the series Things I Want My Kids to Know

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Published: January 24, 2008 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: March 18, 2021In: Parenting, Personal Development Tags: practical parenting / parents, focus, goals / goal setting, values, success, emotional intelligence, sport, motivation, story, positive attitude tips, kids / children

How to Stimulate Auditory Kids

Auditory child's hands playing piano

Auditory kids pay the most attention to sounds. To them, voices, tones, pitches and rhythms provide a wealth of information and carry emotions that other kids simply ignore. They have superior abilities to “record” and “play back” TV shows, skits, songs and conversations. On the other hand, they are sequential thinkers and must be able to focus on one thing at a time.

Auditory kids can often be distinguished by the way they look down and talk to themselves. Their self-talk is often louder than what goes on in the outside world. On the other hand, they are distracted by sounds and disturbed by unpleasant or loud noises.

Here are some ideas that will help auditory kids learn better, be happier and love learning.

This post is part 4 of 4 in the series How to Stimulate Kids

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Published: January 22, 2008 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: August 31, 2020In: Parenting, Education / Learning, Kids / Children Tags: preschool, kindergarten, toddlers, communication styles, learning styles, learning disabilities, child care, communication, k-12 education, early childhood, practical parenting / parents, auditory

Interview with an Author

Be Special, Be Yourself for Teenagers by Ronit Baras

Find the answers to all the good questions I was asked about my first teen book “Be Special, Be Yourself for Teenagers”.

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Published: January 17, 2008 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: December 23, 2019In: Parenting, Teens / Teenagers, Ask Ronit Tags: teen books, public speaker, teens / teenagers, books, practical parenting / parents, mother, father, mom, dad, motivation, learning disabilities, motivational speaker

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