Mark Brandenburg
MA, CPCC
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- Twenty-Five Secrets of Emotionally Intelligent Fathers; Fix Your Wife in 30 Days or Less; 50 Things Fathers Should do for Their Kids
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Mark Brandenburg MA, CPCC, is a former world-ranked tennis professional and coach of other world-ranked players, who has been in the field of high performance and emotional intelligence for over twenty years. He has a Masters degree in counseling psychology and is certified as a professional life coach. He has been working with fathers to improve their fathering skills and ability to connect with their families for over ten years, and he has developed numerous resources for fathers at his site at www.markbrandenburg.com.
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Accepting Your Child's Mistakes
One of the most difficult parts of being a father is learning to accept your children's mistakes. It's certainly easy to be loving, supportive, and helpful when your children are mistake-free, but most fathers who are paying attention don't find too many mistake-free periods of their children's ...
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Do You Want a Successful Relationship?
With a divorce rate in this country that approaches 50%, and a fairly sizable percentage of marriages that naren’t particularly blissful, it’s difficult to avoid searching nfor the answer to the battle of the sexes. Would you like to stop searching? We’ve moved through the ...
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Top Ten Ways to Teach Values to Your Kids
In a consumer-driven society that broadcasts values that don’t reflect what you believe, how can you teach values to your kids? Here are ten ideas to help you: 1. Tell them your life stories and teach through your stories Kids love to hear stories about your childhood. Weave in some moral ...
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Telling Your Stories
I must admit to having a fear that I believe I share with many fathers. I fear that I will some day be insignificant to my children. It's not as though they'll completely forget who I am; it's that what I stand for and what I believe in won't be a significant part of their lives. Perhaps ...
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Ten Common Sense Rules for Fathers
There are a lot of fairly sophisticated parentingtechniques and ideas out there that are attractingattention. To be an effective father, you can skipmost of them and concentrate on common sense rulesthat have always worked. They won’t always makeyou the most popular Dad, but they’ll always ...
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Ten Ways to Get Your Kids to Talk to You
Parents can often be frustrated by their kids’ unwillingness to share their lives with them. Whether your kids are toddlers or teens, there will be times when it’s difficult to “break through” and find out what‘s really going on. Here are ten ideas on how to create opportunities for your kids ...
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Dad, Give Them Household Chores!
You have a chore to do around the house and you kids want to help out somehow. You know that it might nbe nice for them to help but you're feeling a bit impatient. And you know that it might turn into a two hour project andnthere might be a big mess to clean up. A mess that could nbe avoided ...
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Shame on You
“What are you thinking? Haven’t we talked about this before?” My seven-year-old son looked down at the food that had just spilled on the kitchen floor. He stood statue-still, as children often do after an accident. The words and tone I’d used were having their impact. He braced himself to ...
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The 21st Century Parent
John was a 43 year-old sales manager at a large company. He’s married and has 3 children, ages 7, 9, and 12. His wife works part-time as a nursing assistant, and they both do as much as they can to parent their children well. John has developed serious doubts about his ability to be an ...
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Mark Brandenburg
"The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart"
--Mencius