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Let’s Divorce After I Get My Period

Woman kicking man off a cliff

My client Meg came today very emotional and sad. She had been successfully working on her relationship with her husband for over 3 months but doubts had crept in after a serious argument.

Meg has been with her husband for over 10 years. When he started talking about having kids, she started talking about divorcing.

“I do not know if we love each other anymore. We don’t have fun together, the sex is not what it used to be”, she thought and came to me for coaching to make the decision about staying or leaving.

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Published: April 16, 2008 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: March 18, 2021In: Health / Wellbeing, Beautiful people, Relationships / Marriage, Family Matters Tags: happiness, Life Coaching, relationships / marriage, stress / pressure, women, communication, love, emotional intelligence, divorce

What Are You Saying to Your Teens?

Teenage girl looking resentful

A couple of clients came to me for parent coaching because of a problem they had with their teen boy, and were very surprised when we went through Pink Elephants. They said, “We tell him every day NOT to hang around bad kids, but saying it only puts the focus on those kids we want him to stay away from”.

The day after our session, the mother sent me this email:

“Dear Ronit, You won’t believe what happened after we left our session last night. I was home for 3 minutes and so many Pink Elephants came out of my mouth… It’s so hard!”

It is hard. I agree.

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Published: March 26, 2008 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: March 18, 2021In: Life Coaching, Parenting, Teens / Teenagers Tags: language, teens / teenagers, mother, practical parenting / parents, father, mom, dad, happiness, communication styles, communication, learning styles, focus, family matters, values, positive attitude tips, negative, 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: Kids / Children, Parenting, Education / Learning Tags: child care, communication, k-12 education, early childhood, practical parenting / parents, auditory, preschool, kindergarten, toddlers, communication styles, learning styles, learning disabilities

How to Beat those Pink Elephants

Elephant in pink tutu

There are two parts to making a change from using a negative language to a positive one. The first is to understand how we were programmed to use negative language in our life. We talk about what we are not happy about and we express disappointment and frustration instead of saying what we feel, need and want.

The second part of making the change is to do something different and practice doing it until it becomes the new habit.

To help you make the change, here are some rules you need to remember.

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Published: January 21, 2008 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: December 23, 2019In: Personal Development Tags: focus, values, negative, language, communication styles, learning styles, positive attitude tips, behavior / discipline, self confidence / self esteem / self worth, communication

How to Stimulate Digital Kids

Digital children love computers

Digital kids have an outstanding ability to notice patterns, structures, rules and processes. They like to think, take things apart and put them together, possible in a better way. Knowledge is the source of their power and they continually look for opportunities to get more information and sharpen their mind. These kids learn best and expresses themselves best using systems, languages (including math, music and computer languages) and logic.

Digital kids think of things as being “interesting” or “boring”.

Here are some ideas that help digital kids learn better…

This post is part 3 of 4 in the series How to Stimulate Kids

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Published: January 11, 2008 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: April 21, 2020In: Parenting, Education / Learning, Kids / Children Tags: toddlers, communication styles, learning styles, learning disabilities, child care, communication, k-12 education, early childhood, love languages, digital, practical parenting / parents, preschool, kindergarten

How to Stimulate Kinaesthetic Kids

Kinesthetic kids love to play sports

Kinaesthetic kids needs to move in order to think. They are also very sensitive to others and have lots of “gut” feelings. Kinaesthetic children learn by doing.

Too often, these kids are treated as trouble makers, being blamed for not being able to sit still. However, but forcing them to sit and be quiet, we effectively shut down their brain and ensure that they learn nothing. More than that, we teach them that learning is not fun.

This post is part 2 of 4 in the series How to Stimulate Kids

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Published: January 4, 2008 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: April 21, 2020In: Kids / Children, Parenting, Education / Learning Tags: early childhood, practical parenting / parents, preschool, kindergarten, toddlers, communication styles, learning styles, learning disabilities, child care, k-12 education, communication, kinesthetic

How to Stimulate Visual Kids

Visual girl with colorful face painting

Visual kids have a combination video-and-still camera in their heads. They like to see things. Pictures, colours and visual representations of things are their main information carriers. These kids learn best and expresses themselves best using pictures, graphs and colours. To them, one picture really IS worth a thousand words.

Visual kids use colours, graphs and pictures to learn the sounds around them.

Here are some ideas that help visual kids learn better…

This post is part 1 of 4 in the series How to Stimulate Kids

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Published: December 20, 2007 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: April 21, 2020In: Parenting, Education / Learning, Kids / Children Tags: toddlers, communication styles, learning styles, learning disabilities, child care, communication, k-12 education, early childhood, practical parenting / parents, visual, preschool, kindergarten

Diagnosing Learning Difficulties and Gifted Children in the Early Years

Drawing of cogs inside a head and symbols flying around

It was psychologist Howard Gardner’s book, Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences, which first questioned the common psychological orthodoxy about intelligence, the intelligence quotient (IQ), and presented the revolutionary concept of Multiple Intelligences. At a time when a set of tests positioned children in a single spot on the bell curve and educators’ capacity to affect this position was seen as limited, the dawn of multiple intelligences shone a light at the end of a tunnel.

With this great recognition of our ability to enhance intelligence, the two extreme parts of the bell curve – the children with the learning difficulties and the gifted children – became the center of attention. Those two seemingly unrelated ranges of ability require the same type of attention and multiple intelligences brought hope for improvement for both.

A natural progression of that was the area of early diagnosis and early intervention. Should we diagnose learning difficulties during early childhood or will this put a label on them that is too hard to remove? Should we diagnose gifted children or will this doom them to isolation and social challenges? And once a special need is identified, should we intervene or just let nature take its course and allow the kids to “grow out of it”?

Each of the questions presents the choice between a reactive and a proactive approach. For government organizations, these questions are translated to the cost difference between the two, which then determines the approach. For teachers, however, critical time plays an important role in the choice.

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Published: December 13, 2007 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: March 18, 2021In: Parenting, Kids / Children, Education / Learning, Emotional Intelligence Tags: k-12 education, digital, kinesthetic, auditory, visual, gifted, kindergarten, toddlers, communication, communication styles, early childhood, learning styles, success, learning disabilities, child care

Who’s Afraid of Teens Using Drugs?

Young people's hands with cigarettes

Research with parent and children indicates that one of the most effective methods to prevent young people from using drugs is a devoted parent who spends time with their teens, talks with them (not to them) about their friends, their school, their sports and what interests them. The research also reports that teens appreciate parents’ advice and care a lot about what their parents think of them, their actions and their friends and consider this parental feedback a sign of caring.

But how do we get to be our teens’ friends?

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Published: October 15, 2007 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: December 23, 2019In: Education / Learning, Teens / Teenagers, Opinion, Parenting Tags: learning styles, teen books, k-12 education, teens / teenagers, drugs, practical parenting / parents, communication, mother, father, mom, dad, communication styles

Incentives to Change the Divorce Rate

Old couple with backpacks holding hands

A week ago, I called my mom and dad to wish them a happy 48th anniversary day, but I think the wishes were for me, more than for them. I thanked them for being together, for not getting a divorce, for loving each other, for going through tough things together and for surviving. I wished them 30 more years together. Living to be 100 years old together is a great wish.

My mom and dad are simple people, yet they are special and unique, because they belong to a group of only 5% of people who are living together after so many years.

Look at this list of marriage statistics:

* 82% reach their 5th anniversary
* 65% reach their 10th anniversary
* 52% reach their 15th anniversary
* 33% reach their 25th anniversary
* 20% reach their 35th anniversary, and
* only 5% reach their 50th anniversary

I only need to have a session with my clients every day, to realise how special my parents are and how much I need to thank them for being there together for such a long time, because it made life so much easier for me and I am grateful.

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Published: August 31, 2007 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: December 23, 2019In: Parenting, Opinion Tags: communication, divorce, separation, government, happiness, communication styles, learning styles, relationships / marriage, social skills, family matters

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