Parenting an ADHD child
ADHD is one of the most provocative diagnoses that exists in the world of child and adolescent psychology. Tell someone that your child has ADHD and armchair experts will tell you exactly what the ...
Little Wins…
Here’s a quick quiz for you. Think about the children you raise, the students you teach, or the employees you oversee. If you want them to be motivated and have the BEST attitude towards ...
What Legacy Are You Building?
Pause and think, for just a moment, of the most excellent person you have ever met... What made them so “excellent”? Is it possible to create an inventory of their attributes; the ...
High-Performance Habits
“I need a volunteer!” is always a statement that guarantees most people will suddenly stare at their shoes or the ceiling. But when I add the statement “And they need to be the fittest and ...
The Batman Effect
It’s provocative, and I know some people won’t like what I’m about to say, but I’m going to say it: ...Mindfulness doesn’t work for everyone. Ok. I’ve put it out there. ...
The Spanking Debate: Changing Minds Takes a Generation
Smacking is one of those topics in parenting that never really goes away. It’s always in the headlines or creating some kind of provocation on social media.
The reason? There’s a disconnect.
A ...
3 Simple Strategies to Supercharge Your Attitude
I don’t like to deal with absolutes… always, never, everything, nothing. After all, I’m a research scientist. For people like me, I prefer statements like “it depends”. I try to avoid being ...
Why Advice About Alcohol Falls on Deaf Teen Ears (and What You Can Do About It)
In late 2019, shortly before COVID-19 began to do its damage, I was in a coastal NSW high school talking to students in Grades 9 and 10 about the latest alcohol statistics. Those stats tell a very ...
My Annual Review – 2020 Edition
For the past two years I’ve written a behind-the-scenes, take-a-peek-under-the-hood kind of annual review so you can see what it is like to be both immersed in talking about having a happy family ...
How to Stop Telling and Yelling, and How to Connect With Your Teen
‘Get up!’ ‘Hurry up! It’s time to go.’ ‘Do your homework now. You should have done it already!’ ‘You will study tonight.’ Nobody likes to be told what to do. It gets ...