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Things I want my kids to know: I will come!

I was sitting in the most wonderful place in the world – on the beach of Koh Samui in Thailand. My daughter was almost seven years old and my was just one yea old and was running on the beach naked. As the two of them were building sand castles, I learned the first thing I want my kids to know.

A 60 year-old man approached us and told us this story.

This post is part 1 of 7 in the series Things I Want My Kids to Know

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January 2, 2008 by Ronit Baras In: Beautiful people, Parenting, Relationships / Marriage Tags: inspiration, love, practical parenting / parents, relationships / marriage, self confidence / self esteem / self worth, story, stress / pressure, travel, trust

Things I Want My Kids to Know: Shoot!

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

Things I Want My Kids to Know: The Door is Always Open

This week, I had a talk with my 19-year-old daughter about leaving home. Because some of her friends had left home and then had to come back due to financial difficulties, we talked about the emotional aspect of “going back home”. When we talked, she told me about the feelings of shame, failure, disappointment and many other negative feelings that would be associated with having to go back home. It was after this talk that I realized there is one more thing I want my kids to know.

This post is part 3 of 7 in the series Things I Want My Kids to Know

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June 26, 2008 by Ronit Baras In: Kids / Children, Parenting, Relationships / Marriage, Teens / Teenagers Tags: acceptance / judgment / tolerance, family matters, kids / children, love, practical parenting / parents, relationships / marriage, teens / teenagers

Things I Want My Kids to Know: Leave the “How” To the Universe

Sometimes, when people really try to go for something, their goals can be too big or set too far away so they easily lose track along the way. When I talk to my kids about knowing where to sail to, they always ask, “But Mom, how do I get there?”

I think the question “How do I do it?” is the most demoralizing thought people have during their dreaming stages.

This post is part 4 of 7 in the series Things I Want My Kids to Know

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September 26, 2008 by Ronit Baras In: Parenting, Personal Development, Success / Wealth Tags: beliefs, dreams, emotional intelligence, focus, goals / goal setting, motivation, personal development / personal growth / personality development / self improvement, positive attitude tips, practical parenting / parents, success, vision

Things I Want My Kids to Know: Rise Up!

Some time ago, my teen daughter went to a teen motivation seminar (that shall remain anonymous at this stage). Gal and I were very happy she was going to participate. As you can imagine, us two life coaching parents are happy with every opportunity for our kids to hear some of our “preaching” from someone else. However, she came back so disappointed, our heart dropped.

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January 29, 2009 by Ronit Baras In: Parenting, Personal Development, Success / Wealth, Teens / Teenagers Tags: change, inspiration, personal development / personal growth / personality development / self improvement, practical parenting / parents, story, success, vision, wealth

Things I Want My Kids to Know: Listen!

Many times, when we face difficulties, we look for ways to ease our load. The first thing that comes to mind is “Change your place, change your luck”. Although this is a Jewish proverb, I think most people want to believe in it, regardless of their faith. This is why people change jobs, move to another place and (unfortunately) switch to a new relationship so easily.

People want to believe that changing their address will change their life, when in fact it is their attitude that needs to change.

This post is part 6 of 7 in the series Things I Want My Kids to Know

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February 5, 2009 by Ronit Baras In: Parenting, Personal Development, Relationships / Marriage Tags: beliefs, change, choice, emotional intelligence, focus, personal development / personal growth / personality development / self improvement, practical parenting / parents, relationships / marriage, story, trust, vision

100 Tips for My Children

Ronit and Noff on the beach

Over 26 years of being a parent, I have made a huge effort to give my kids the rules of life that, in my belief, will set them up for a better life. Every parent wants to raise happy, healthy, successful, kind, smart, courageous, creative, friendly and wealthy children that have lots of love and happiness in their life.

I say that parenting is a sales job. If you sell your life philosophy to your kids well, you have great relationships with them and you know they will do well. If you are not a good sales person (even if your philosophy works well for you), you will face lots of conflict and frustration.

Years ago, I started writing a series called Things I want my kids to know. I think I want my kids to know everything I have written in this blog, but this series is a good summary. In this post, I would like to give my kids 100 tips from my bag of tips for a happy, healthy, successful and loving life.

I encourage you to make your own list of 100 pieces of advice you want to share with your kids, so that one day, when they ask themselves what you wanted for them, they will have it in writing.

Remember that giving advice is something you give from your own free will, with the full intention of doing good. It is your child’s choice whether to take your advice or not. We give! They need to choose to take. If they don’t take our advice, it may be because they are not in a good relationship with us and there is a distrust. It may be because they are not ready, you haven’t presented it well, you are not a good role model for what you suggest, or their life circumstances are different from yours and they can’t see how they can apply your advice to their life.

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

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November 24, 2015 by Ronit Baras In: Parenting, Personal Development Tags: assertive, attitude, beliefs, change, choice, determination, emotional intelligence, failure, forgiveness, inspiration, love, mobile phone, practical parenting / parents, relationships / marriage, self confidence / self esteem / self worth, story, stress / pressure, success, trust

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