The Most Brilliant Parenting Advice that also Works in Business
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When I realized my grand plan to get married and have kids wasn’t going to manifest, I decided I would forge ahead on my own. For me, that meant doing research to learn parenting techniques and building a support system to help me make it happen.
I served on the board at our local Conflict Resolution Center (focused on mediation) and met a remarkable woman named Rainbow Markell. She was an experienced Early Childhood Education pro, and she turned me on to the RIE Method of child-rearing that I still use today in dealing with other humans.
Because her advice proved to be so powerful, I realized early childhood educators are like child whisperers. Their experience could reveal secrets we mere mortals might never know.
She set the stage for what happened next — another life-changing moment.
Around age three, when my daughter was in preschool, her teacher came up to me with an update.