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Amazing Awakened Spirit in a Beautiful Teenager

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Teens have a bad reputation. People often label them as rebellious, difficult and even troubled. Over the years, I’ve worked with many teens, and some of them have an awakened spirit that blew me away.

Jordan was a 17-year-old boy who came to see me because he had some difficulties with his parents. When I read his parents’ description of him, and the description he had written about himself, I knew he was different. No doubt about it. I just didn’t know how much.

His parents wrote he had been clingy as a child, had no friends, didn’t listen to them and had no direction in life. But when I read his own description, I was very confused. The way he described himself – his desires, challenges and what he wanted from his coaching – was in total contradiction to what his parents wrote about him. This was an issue for sure.

This post is part [part not set] of 19 in the series From the Life Coaching Deck

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Published: November 4, 2020 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: November 3, 2020In: Teens / Teenagers, Beautiful people Tags: practical parenting / parents, role model, wisdom, social skills, family matters, parenting teens, acceptance / judgment / tolerance, personal development / personal growth / personality development / self improvement

Amazing Natural Treatment for Hyperactive Attention Deficit Disorder

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Children with learning difficulties are very close to my heart. I’ve written about kids with Hyperactive Attention Deficit Disorder (ADHD) before and shared tips and strategies to help them live a happy, fulfilling life. It makes me very happy when readers share their stories and tell me how they’ve used my tips to improve their ADHD child’s life for the better.

Claire is the mother of a boy with ADD/ADHD. She came to this blog and read some of the posts about ways to manage Hyperactive Attention Deficit Disorder. After just one month of trying some of the techniques, her son became a happier child, and she became a happier mom.

When she felt she was on the right track, she sent me a very happy and positive update on her son’s progress and how she’d used my tips. So I asked if I could share her emails with other moms.

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Published: October 28, 2020 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: November 28, 2022In: Parenting, Health / Wellbeing Tags: hyperactive, attention deficit / add / adhd, behavior / discipline, health / wellbeing, practical parenting / parents

How to Vaporize Psychological Pain with Psychological Painkillers

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Everyone understands what physical pain is. And the medical world is full of treatments and painkillers to eliminate this pain. But psychological pain is not that well-known and treating it is a bit more challenging.

Physical pain comes from damage to the tissues of the body. Psychological pain is a suffering with no apparent physical origin. You can even say that all the feelings we don’t like – sadness, grief, anger, contempt, frustration, rage, depression, etc. – are forms psychological pain.

Physical pain is often localized, temporary and associated with some harmful or damaging physical trigger. Psychological pain is a more generalized, lasting, unpleasant feeling resulting from an inability of to cope with emotional challenges. But sometimes, it manifests just like physical pain does.

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Published: October 21, 2020 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: October 21, 2020In: Health / Wellbeing, Personal Development Tags: tips, health / wellbeing, personal development / personal growth / personality development / self improvement, feeling, focus, how to, interpretation

Seize the Day: Are You Using or Losing Your Time?

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Time is precious. Some say that time is the only thing we really have. Most people know the expressions “Carpe diem”, “Seize the day” and “Seize the present”, but only few actually live by them.

Time keeps moving forward. Often, we feel like it’s just flown past us and are out of time. So, we need to learn to appreciate the time we have and use it wisely. We all have the same 24 hours every day. We should make the most of them.

We say that children have no concept of time. My 3-year-old granddaughter has reached the stage of recognizing past and present. For her, the past is “yesterday”, and the future is “tomorrow”. That’s advanced for her age, but limited compared to an adult’s understanding of time.

But I wonder about this view.

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Published: October 14, 2020 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: October 13, 2020In: Personal Development Tags: responsibility, success, happiness, work life balance, time management, personal development / personal growth / personality development / self improvement, focus

This Is How To Take Charge Of Your Life

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Many people want to take charge of their life, but simply don’t know how to. It’s one thing to understand that taking charge is important and another thing to actually do it. If you’re looking for tips that will help you, keep reading!

I wasn’t always in charge of my life. For my first 16 years, other people and circumstances ruled everything. I had no control whatsoever and my life looked, well, out of control.

I was sailing in the sea of life without a captain and was knocked around from side to side, crashing and tumbling when strong winds came. Without direction, without resources, with no captain and no crew to support me, every breeze turned into a storm.

For every two steps forward, I took one step back. Even when I made progress, I still felt I was going nowhere.

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Published: October 6, 2020 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: May 17, 2021In: Personal Development Tags: responsibility, success, how to, choice, control, change, positive attitude tips, personal development / personal growth / personality development / self improvement

The Truth about Why We Send Our Kids to School

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There is a point in every parent’s journey where you ask yourself, “Why do I send my kids to school?” Over the last 33 years, I’ve worked with many parents. And I can tell you that most of them didn’t have a good answer to this question.

Have you ever reached this point in your parenting?

What was your answer?

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Published: September 30, 2020 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: September 30, 2020In: Parenting, Education / Learning Tags: school, success, choice, motivation, society, k-12 education, education / learning, practical parenting / parents

How to Make Every Relationship You Want Good

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What makes a good relationship? Are there signs of a good relationship? What questions would you ask to find out if a relationship is good? How to have good relationships?

Every year, as September gets closer, my husband Gal and I think about relationships. This year, in September 2020, we’re celebrating 40 years of friendship. We’ve learned over the years that friendship is a special relationship worth celebrating.

When you spend many years with one person, you learn a lot about them. But mostly, you learn about yourself and what relationships mean.

This post is part 46 of 48 in the series Make a List

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Published: September 23, 2020 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: January 24, 2023In: Relationships / Marriage Tags: how to, choice, beliefs, change, relationships / marriage, tips, personal development / personal growth / personality development / self improvement, list

How to Conquer Your Fear and Live with Power

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We all experience fear a few times a day. It’s normal. At a low rate, fear is manageable. However, when we let fear take over our life and rule it, we no longer have control. So, if we could understand fear better, we could conquer it.

Emotional intelligence is the ability to recognize our feelings (level 1) and manage them (level 2).

Beyond that are the ability to recognize other’s feelings (level 3), then help and support them in recognizing and managing their own feelings (level 4).

People who experience debilitating fear struggle with levels 1 & 2. For them, levels 3 & 4 are near impossible.

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Published: September 16, 2020 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: October 19, 2021In: Emotional Intelligence

Practice Fearless Parenting Under Pressure: Do It Your Way

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Parenting is one of the most important and difficult things we’ll ever do in life. And it becomes even harder when we doubt ourselves and stop trusting our own judgment. When others try to impose their methods of parenting on us, and we let it affect us, we have an even greater challenge.

I was lucky to start my parenting journey when our close friends didn’t have children and our family was too far away. Until our daughter Eden was 14 months old, Gal and I relied solely on our own judgment. We had no Internet and no people telling us what to do.

Eden was born after I finished most of my education studies. Although my course didn’t cover things like the best time to feed babies, or when to start giving solid food, it did help me build the confidence to raise her.

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Published: September 9, 2020 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: September 14, 2020In: Parenting Tags: how to, choice, trust, control, social skills, tv, persistence, stress / pressure, acceptance / judgment / tolerance, practical parenting / parents

How to Motivate Your Stepchildren: A Stepparent’s Guide

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Being a parent is one of the biggest challenges a person ever experiences. Being a stepparent is even harder. If every family needs goals, blended families need them even more.

Think of a family like a ship. Parents are the captains of the ship, and as captains, we need to make sure our family arrives at its destination safely. In every sea, there are storms and calm waters, and we need to prepare ourselves for every ride.

What do ships need in order to move? They need two coordinates. They need to know where they are and where they are going. Without them, we don’t know how much supplies to take, what direction to take, what to avoid and where to stop on the way to have some fun.

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Published: September 2, 2020 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: September 2, 2020In: Parenting Tags: how to, books, motivation, kids / children, teens / teenagers, parenting teens, practical parenting / parents

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