Tag: healthy parenting

Careless Words – Stop the Carnage

Posted on by Michael Rose
My 12-year-old tells us of how at school there is a practice of “burns”.  Burns are insults intended (so they say) to be humorous.  They make a sharp comment, someone feels stupid, hurt or embarrassed and the other kids laugh saying ‘You just got burned!”  And sometimes, after a scathing burn, they follow up with “just…
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Navigating the Christmas Rush

Posted on by Michael Rose
Christmas day is fast approaching and many people are in a full-on lather of activity; shopping for gifts for our friends and family, attending Christmas social events, Church events, and Children’s Christmas activities and concerts.  Not to mention scrambling to get things tied-up at work before the Christmas break! This is just par for the…
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A Terrible Case of the What if

Posted on by Michael Rose
Last night, while I lay thinking here, some What ifs crawled inside my ear and pranced and partied all night long and sang their same old What-if song: What if I’m dumb in school? What if they’ve closed the swimming pool? What if I get beat up? What if there’s poison in my cup? What if I start to cry? What if…
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Is it Godly Leadership or Control?

Posted on by Michael Rose
In an organization, leaders generally consider themselves in the right. It is part of the paradigm they create for themselves: if you have succeeded in making your way to the top of an organization, then, by definition, the values for which you stand, must be right, because they have been authenticated and validated by peers…
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