Blog – Page 6 – Dr. Randy Cale

12 Aug

How To Feel Bad When Working Hard: Taking Things Personally

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In this series of mistakes that fail your family, I am highlighting common strategies that undermine your children’s success and happiness. We have covered several behavioral strategies recently, but today’s discussion focuses on a critical mental mistake: Taking things personally.

06 Aug

The Backfire: How Good Intentions Turn South!

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If you have been reading this column for a while, you will recognize this ‘Cale Truism’ that I have addressed from many angles: Your superpower as a parent resides in your mastery of how you use your attention. What

26 Jul

“Let Me Fix That Sweetheart…”

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Common Strategies That Fail Your Family Earlier in the week, our practice worked with a family where we conducted a brain map (QEEG) for their daughter, who is on the spectrum. During the session, Dad repeatedly offered help and guidance

16 Jul

Get This Now: How Brains Learn the Fundamentals

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Sometimes we need to pay attention to the fundamentals. Often, in fact, too often, we search for the complex or ultra-new insight into life when we would be served best by looking at the simple things. Today, I want to

09 Jul

Teaching Kids to be Irresponsible?

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I frequently work with families where academic performance is deteriorating, and parents are tired of battling and arguing with their child over homework. Often, these same families are struggling with behavioral issues and simple daily routines, such as getting their

25 Jun

“I’m Bored. It’s Your Job To Make Me Happy.”

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The Myths of Summertime Parenting ‘I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast worked that you’ve seen zero percent of. Even the inside of your mind is endless; it goes on

19 Jun

Why Do Your Kids Keep Asking The Same Questions…Over and Over?

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It seems unbelievable. Some children constantly ask the same questions repeatedly, day in and day out. Trying to be patient, you answer. Then, you answer again. And then again. It can be annoying, irritating, and downright frustrating! So perhaps you

05 Jun

Less Stress: Why You Need the Simple Summer Plan!

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The end of this school year is upon us, and the pleasures of summer await. Yet, summer fun is often thwarted with constant decision making, kid’s complaints, power struggles, tantrums, and battles. Such challenges often turn potential pleasure into sources

15 May

How Fear-Based Parenting Fails Your Children

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What is Fear-Based Parenting? Worries and anxieties about your child and their future all stem from fear. These fears lead to repetitive parenting actions that undermine your child’s general sense of well-being. We often have elaborate excuses and justifications for

22 Jan

How To Eliminate Procrastination

Among the struggles many adults and children deal with, procrastination is often among the top sources of frustration. And understandably so for most. It is the cause of stress, poor performance, lost sleep and thwarted life satisfaction. For many, this