Patrick McMillan
Social/Emotional Learning author (IPPA, NASE)
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Emotional Growth for Kids Expert
Patrick McMillan Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Instilling emotional awareness in children
- Career Focus
- Author, Speaker, Founder of An Exercise in Happiness for Kids
- Affiliation
- National Association for Self-Esteem, International Positive Psychology Association
As a stay at home dad for the past seven years, with two exceptional young boys, a passion grew in me to help them develop the emotional stability to cope, in a positive way, with the stresses and negativity that have consumed our society. Despite the bad news, scientific studies on emotion over the past twenty years have shed new light on the possibilities for positive change. These studies, coupled with years of interest in the Philosophy of Happiness, have motivated me to discover my purpose, which is to provide not only my children, but every child with the tools to live a happy life, which is a life they strive for every day, though for so many more children, year after year, this becomes an agonizing up hill battle. Childhood depression has reached epidedmic proportions, and this just simply should not be. I am determined to do everything I can to help them.
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Thinking Happy - A Skill to Teach Our Kids?
Thinking happy thoughts at will is a skill that we can learn and teach our children, and certainly one we should teach them, after all happiness is what every parent wishes for their child right?. But how do we instill habits of happy thinking in ourselves and our kids? First, it helps to understand what factors determine our happiness or satisfaction with life in general. According to Sonja Lubromirski PhD.
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6 Ways to Be a Happy Super-Model Parent
There is no such thing as a “perfect” parent though most of us try to be the best mom or dad we can be. Just as we tend to model the parenting habits of our parents, our children too will model themselves based on who they see in us. If we want our children to BE HAPPY we need to be Super-Models of Happiness and our kids will follow our lead. By: Patrick McMillan Just as Mahatma Gandhi said in his most famous quote “Be the change you want to see in the world” as parents we must be the people we want to see in our kids.
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How to get Your Kids to do What You WANT with Ease!
5 Tips to get your kids to do what you want them to without manipulation, bribery or threats. It’s a lot easier and more fun than you might think. Whether it’s getting our kids out of bed and ready for school or getting them to do homework after school, brush their teeth or clean up their room, getting our kids to do the things we want them to can be a daily struggle that can lead to screaming matches and huge amounts of frustration for many parents, and their kids.
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Character Education is Personal Growth for Kids
Social and Emotional learning builds character traits that provide kids with benefits that last a lifetime and lessons from Personal Growth and Positive Psychology can change the future and our kid’s lives. From Dale Carnegie, Napoleon Hill and Samuel Clement Stone to Zig Zigler, Tony Robbins, Jack Canfield, Deepak Chopra and Dr. Wayne Dyer, the message about how to live a life without excuses, doubts, fears and to its absolute fullest has been blasted loud and clear for all of us to hear for a very long time.
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A Call to Action! – A Case of Optimism for Our Children’s Future
In light of the current global economic situation, more now than ever we must help our kids by instilling optimism in ourselves. By: Patrick McMillan Author, An Exercise in Happiness for Kids Until our kids are grown and gone, we clean up after them. When our kids make a mess, we clean it ...
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An Exercise In Happiness For Kids
Children “Need Lessons in Happiness,” reads the headline in an article by Graeme Paton, Educational Correspondent for the BBC in March of 2007. According to Senior British Government Advisor, Lord Richard Layard, “All school children should have “happiness” lessons up to the age of eighteen to ...
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Patrick McMillan
Every child is worthy of the happiness they so desire.
When you are with a child, S.M.I.L.E
Support Them, Motivate Them, Inspire Them, Love Them, Educate Them
Contacting Patrick McMillan
How to get started
Please visit my website at www.KidsCanDoAnything.com. You can also read my latest blog post and leave me some feedback at www.blog.kidscandoanyhthing.com.
A recent article, titled An Exercise in Happiness, can be read at http://reliableanswers.com/med/happiness_for_kids.asp
email patrick@kidscandoanything.com
Other highlights
Kids Can Do Anything has recently teamed with Life Masteries Institute, www.lifemasteries.org, through Synergy Solutions, www.synergysolutions.net. Mark Boersma, President of Synergy Solutions along with being an Author, Speaker, Coach and developer of life building tools and systems, has donated his technology to both Life Masteries and Kids Can Do Anything, to create a life changing on-line experience for kids and their parents, teachers and school administration. With a goal of having this program in the hands of 500,000 children by January 2009, this team is on a mission to change the world