by ishine Team | Jan 10, 2011 | General
Two weeks before Christmas, my son came down with what I suspected was Strep throat. His best friend had just had it, and my son was exhibiting the classic symptoms. I kept him home from school and scheduled an appt to confirm a diagnosis. As we were heading to the...
by ishine Team | Mar 10, 2010 | Goals
Everyone deserves to live their dreams, and we all have the capacity to do so. But how do we get from where we are to where we want to be? I recently had a very empowering experience with my son that proved to me the power of a very simple tool to help kids achieve...
by ishine Team | Feb 15, 2010 | Communication
I’ve been experimenting with a lot of different approaches lately with regard to how I’ve been communicating with my son. Frankly, we’ve been butting heads a lot lately, and just generally haven’t been getting along. I knew something felt off, so rather than look at...
by ishine Team | Jan 27, 2010 | Character building
So much is being broadcast about the horrific devastation in Haiti. No matter how much you may cut yourself off from the media, it is impossible not to hear stories of death and destruction. But at the same time, it is equally hard not to hear stories of survival,...
by ishine Team | Nov 15, 2009 | Character building
Proponents of the Law of Attraction claim that we create our reality based on our thoughts. The idea goes something like this: If you are mostly thinking about what is missing or wrong in your life, you will attract more scarcity of what you want or more of what is...