I have written before about my challenges as a parent of trying NOT to lecture too much. It just seems to come naturally—we parents have so much we want to say and we expect that our children should want to hear it. The lecture, however, is a big turn-off! It is a surefire way to make sure that our children totally tune out what we are trying to say. Now that my kids are older, they have confessed that when a parent gets that “lecture” tone, they just go on auto-pilot and do not listen to what is being said. … Continue reading →