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How to Cripple Your Kids
We've been hearing more about “helicopter parents” in the last few years. Is this just a healthy concern for the well-being of our children? Can we help them be excellent by giving them all our time, advice and resources? Well, unfortunately it’s pretty easy to show that students with helicopter parents tended to be “less open to new ideas and actions, as well as more vulnerable, anxious and self-consciousness, among other factors, compared with their counterparts with more distant parents.
Helicopter Parents Descending onto Your Organization
Has your organization seen an increase in the number of "helicopter" parents involving themselves with their child's work, social and personal life? If so, you're not alone. This trend has definitely taken an upswing the past few years, and has become so common that there are organizations trying to devise strategies on how to combat this phenomenon.
Millennials – Can’t Work With ‘Em…Can’t Work Without ‘Em: So what’s a company to do?
Millennials: The youngest members of your workforce, given that moniker becaue they began entering the workforce at the turn of the millennium. As with their older counterparts, they have their own set of stereotypes that come along with them: "Slackers" - "Whiners" - "The 'get a reward for everything' generation." How do companies, and particularly we Boomer bosses, make the most of these young people's capacities while we help them learn how to navigate a work world that will not always be as warm and fuzzy as was mom and the soccer coach?
The Joy of the “Y”: Coaching a New Generation
Tapping into the potential of generation "Y"

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Anybody can become a good salesperson
How did you get into sales? My guess is that it wasn't the career your parents had picked out for you. Usually parents want their children to be accountants or lawyers or go into the family business. Selling is not usually top of the list.

Steve Jobs Bio
The Steve Jobs bio, and the story of the life of a man whose career would rebound more times than many critics thought possible, began in San Francisco, California on February 24, 1955. Born to an unwed American mother and a Syrian father, Jobs was put up for adoption by his parents the week after his arrival in this world. Taken in by Paul and Clara Jobs of Mountain View, California, Jobs dislikes the term “adoptive parents” and considers Paul and Clara the only parents he ever had.

Mubarak Abdullahi’s home-made helicopter takes Nigeria’s Kano Plains by storm
Yahoo! News (among other sources) carries a story from October 21st about Mubarak Muhammad Abdullahi of the Kano Plains of Nigeria who has built a working helicopter over the last 8 months using scrap aluminum and parts from a Honda Civic, an old Toyota and from the remains of a crashed Boeing 747.
Helicopter Parents Descending onto Your Organization
Has your organization seen an increase in the number of "helicopter" parents involving themselves with their child's work, social and personal life? If so, you're not alone. This trend has definitely taken an upswing the past few years, and has become so common that there are organizations trying to devise strategies on how to combat this phenomenon.
Networking for parents
Caroline Artis is a partner at Ernst & Young. When she went on maternity leave she realised that more support was needed for returning mums. Now she heads a Parents' Network which provides a growing range of advice and help for working parents in the firm.
The Benefits of Homeschooling
Being with your child builds a strong relationship. Now kids can be farmed out from infancy to their late teens with very little interaction with their parents. Is it any wonder that so much friction comes about between teenagers and their parents because neither knows the other? Being with your child in a homeschool setting provides not only the chance to teach your child but to listen (very important) to their ideas, pains, fears, joys and other feelings they are experiencing.
Parents Can Accelerate their Children's Ability to Learn
Parents can accelerate their children's ability to learn and resolve conflict constructively - by mastering the Skills of Listening. Will Rogers accurately describes the fact that most parents have never evaluated their ability to listen to their children. He says, "The trouble with people is not what they know. It's what they know that ain't so." The fact is that 95% of parents may not listen to their children.
Parent Rules Do Affect Teens' Choices Re: Drinking
As teenagers mature into their senior year of high school, many parents begin to feel more comfortable about letting them drink alcohol. But new research from brain scientists and parenting experts suggests loosening the reins on drinking may not be a good idea in the long run. And, researchers say, parents' approach to addressing teen drinking does influence a teen's behavior.

How to Cripple Your Kids
We've been hearing more about “helicopter parents” in the last few years. Is this just a healthy concern for the well-being of our children? Can we help them be excellent by giving them all our time, advice and resources? Well, unfortunately it’s pretty easy to show that students with helicopter parents tended to be “less open to new ideas and actions, as well as more vulnerable, anxious and self-consciousness, among other factors, compared with their counterparts with more distant parents.
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