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Pending Lawsuit Alert…I’m Talking to You Kellogg’s

June 19, 2008

Saw this at Network World and had to speak up. For anyone who thinks negative thinking is not necessary, I give you Kellogg’s LEGO Fruit Flavored Snacks. Whoever came up with this legal booby-trap should be fired for being too positive. I can see them pitching the idea: Positive Pitchman: Kids love LEGOs right? Kids [...]

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Money talks…

June 17, 2008

Sometime yesterday morning the blog hit 20,000 views. Thanks for your continued readership. I’ve been lax in my postings, but I’ll try my best to keep a daily commentary if I can. But on to today’s topic: One of the things I’ve learned researching Generation Y and how they’ve come to be who they are [...]

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Monster Parents are on the Loose in Japan!

June 13, 2008

After reading this lovely rebuke from a reader (I still feel I am correct…but hey, feedback is feedback) about parents suing teachers, I found a wonderful article that shows Helicopter Parents exist outside of North America as well. From the Times Online: The stage was set, the lights went down and in a suburban Japanese [...]

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Generation Y: The What’s and How’s of the New Workforce

June 9, 2008

Sorry for the lack of posts recently. I was working in Puerto Rico the past week, delivering two programs for a great organization. My wife joined me since it was our anniversary (Happy Anniversary Honey!). She never asks to go to Des Moines or Cleveland, but Puerto Rico…she’s going. We had a great time and [...]

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Be a parent, not a buddy

May 9, 2008

Ah…Oprah. She has the soapbox to spread the good word, and lately it’s been more and more aligned with “Negative Thinking “. You go, girlfriend. If you need me to stop by for a show you can call my office (877.572.7890) anytime. Anyway, back to my main point. Oprah.com had an article for parents on [...]

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Gen X and Gen Y becoming Gen debt and Gen why?

April 28, 2008

I have said many times here and when I speak that it is important to use negative thinking to plan for the future. I’ve also said we need to show our children how to use negative thinking to be productive and responsible. Finally, the LA Times is showing the results of the lack planning in [...]

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Avoiding the stigma of failure = illiterate graduates

April 21, 2008

Failing a student, keeping them back a grade is definitely a case by case basis. But as this article shows, more and more kids are getting “social promotions” through school to avoid the tag of failures. From KnoxNews.com: Charleston Beard failed several classes his sophomore year, but the 17-year-old Central High School student was promoted [...]

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Quit swearing, you damn brats

March 27, 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgx1sSfriIA

I saw an article on the most obvious issue that parents delude themselves about. Swearing. Parents (including my own) have long pretended that there is no way their potty-mouth child could possibly learn such bad language from themselves. My own father (Hi Dad!) they call “Mr. Effing”. Why? Because it was effing this and effing [...]

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Monkey Monday: How to Prevent or Survive a Monkey Attack

March 24, 2008

So I was surfing around the intrawebs and found this great site called: Wikihow is site that explains how to do just about anything. Need to learn how to clean your clothes dryer vent? Or perform telekinesis? How about making up a new language? It has just about everything. So I poked around and found something that combines [...]

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Thank you for driving good teachers away

March 20, 2008

A disturbing trend of parent suing teachers is getting worse. Its bad enough we don’t pay our teachers nearly enough but now parents are driving the good ones, who look past the salary, away from teaching. Parents refuse to accept that their precious little snowflake may not be as brilliant as they think they are. [...]

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