Someone Else’s Kids

After watching World Series Game 2 and World Series Game 3 of the Boston Red Sox versus the Colorado Rockies, I wanted to share a list of things I thought of that kids could learn from watching the competition.
1. Follow Your Dreams – I thought it was great when the announcer mentioned that one […]

I think it’s great when communities gold creative events that get people out of their houses to experience cultural activities in their towns or cities. It’s great to see people getting away from their television sets for an evening and actually interacting with their neighbors.
One such event is called Uptown Saturday Night and is held […]

In the previous entry titled Should Parents Scream, I was examining the idea from the point of view of a communications researcher.
In this entry, I want to focus more on the perspective I got on the subject from going through the official Total Transformation Material.
Lehman explains parental screaming from a psychological point of view. He […]

If your business makes custom products for its clients, then you know how time-consuming your business cycle can be. That means it is also money-consuming. In other the words, the more time you could trim off the business cycle (without sacrificing any aspect of the customer experience), the more profit you can make.
That’s where sales […]

I have to say that I was surprised to find that screaming is listed among the ineffective parenting roles in the Total Transformation Behavior Program. It’s not that I necessarily thought that screaming was that effective, but just that it seemed insignificant or irrelevant to me.
I remember years ago in a communications class talking about […]

Like many people, I grew up with old-fashioned windows that were used a pulley system. They were a pain to take out in order to clean.
For years, I saw those commercials and infomercials featuring modern replacement windows that are so much easier breeze to clean because of the way they can be opened. […]

James Lehman and the Total Transformation parents on the CD were talking about the concept of learned helplessness which means that kids (or adults for that matter) actually don’t learn how to do something when someone else constantly does it for them or excuses them from the responsibility of doing something.
Kids eventually interpret this as […]

I was going to call this post “Instant Garage,” but that might be pushing it just alittle.
While you can’t quite call them instant, purchasing a prefab garage is from a site like Lidget.Co.Uk is the next best thing.
I’ve had residences with garages and without garages and let me tell you – having […]