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Entries Tagged as 'A Word to the Wise'

Boys and Movement

June 11th, 2007 · 5 Comments

This is another chunk of an Ian Lillico article. Ian’s co-founder of Boys Forward and you can see the last article I posted  about his material to get all the links…
Boys convert feelings to movement. Little boys get onto their tricycles, then bicycles, and then cars, as they grow older, when they have an emotion [...]

Tags: A Word to the Wise · The Male Approach

Behaviour Managment for Boys

May 31st, 2007 · 10 Comments

I’ve found some of the writings of Ian Lillico very helpful with regards to raising boys. I thought I’d post one of his short articles and then link to the site I found it on.

Behaviour management for boys
By Ian Lillico
The behaviour of boys should be modified through praise - never through sanction or punishment. Punishment [...]

Tags: A Word to the Wise · Family

Even Dads Need to Defrag

May 13th, 2007 · 13 Comments

A Dad I was coaching (you don’t know him, folks, he’s never commented on this blog, stop guessing!), once lamented about the complete lack of time in his life to think, plan, pray. He lacked ”time away from the noise” as he put it.

Now this man deeply loved his wife and four kids, he loved his work. [...]

Tags: A Word to the Wise · Guys I Have Known