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.

Rainbow and Katie — Rainbow was essential in helping me create a friction-free home environment.

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.

Cari and Katie, both looking way too sane. They were both balls of energy.

Around age three, when my daughter was in preschool, her teacher came up to me with an update.