Category Setting Boundaries

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7 Steps for Setting Boundaries with Kids

They are established for protection and learning how to live life. Boundaries help your kids learn how to gain control of their own impulses.

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Setting Boundaries with Difficult People

In our world there are some ‘nasty’ people and the majority don’t display it so you can see them coming. In fact, most of the nasty people I’ve dealt with are well disguised.

How to Set Boundaries and Take Control of Your Life

There is no quick fix when establishing healthy boundaries in your life. Patience with yourself and others is required. Each of the steps could be a lifelong struggle for you. Take your time and be gentle with yourself.

Is Your Life a Facade?

Does everything appear lovely on the outside of your life? All is in order? You seems to others to have everything under control? But under it all you feel uneasy, stuck or even trapped?

The Dysfunctional Family

A dysfunctional family is a family in which conflict, misbehavior, and often child neglect or abuse on the part of individual parents occur continually and regularly, leading other members to accommodate such actions.

Why Kids Need Boundaries

I’ve had occasion to think more recently about parents who want to be friends with their children. They don’t want their children to think of them as mean. They take it personally when a preschooler says, “I hate you.”

How to Find the ‘Message’ in the Chaos

You may think that there is absolutely nothing good that can come from the chaos you are living.

Hiding Is Not Humility-My Own Worst Enemy for Single Moms

by Gail Cawley Showalter, Founder of SMORE for Women from My Own Worst Enemy  by Janet Davis  Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you heard a voice in your head say, “Just who do you think you are?”  And what was your answer? Did you back off? Did you cower? Did you have a […]

How to Set Personal Boundaries

When I decided to teach Boundaries in our Sunday class at Calder Baptist Church I thought we would cover the material in a few months. A year and a half later we were still on the subject. I’ve found that women, especially divorced and single mothers, have serious issues with boundaries.