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October 13th, 2021

How Is Your Relationship Bank Balance?

By: Linda Adams

When your child is born, you give them your time, energy, attention, caring and love. You treat your baby with […]

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May 24th, 2021

Listening in the Time of a Pandemic

By: Linda and Michelle Adams

“I really don’t want to go back to the office full-time. I think it’s too soon.” 1. “What!? We need […]

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March 16th, 2021

Communication Lessons from a Reality TV Show Connoisseur

By: Jo Allan

In recent years, I have become a reality show connoisseur. After a long day at work, I enjoy watching something […]

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February 19th, 2021

How to Talk More with Your Kids

By: Dr. Thomas Gordon

One of the most effective and constructive ways of responding to children’s feeling-messages or problem-messages is the “door-opener”

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February 18th, 2021

How Realistic is Group Decision-Making? (Spoiler Alert: Very)

By: Dr. Thomas Gordon

Think of the leader of the management team as also being a member. However, leaders usually have special responsibilities in […]

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January 12th, 2021

What Precisely Is the P.E.T. Method of Parenting?

By: Dr. Thomas Gordon

(Newly-found speech from 1999!) When people ask me:  what exactly is the P.E.T. method of parenting, I usually feel somewhat […]

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September 23rd, 2020

Isn’t Active Listening Just Another Way to Manipulate People?

By: Michelle Adams

First, let’s define Active Listening.  Active Listening is a special way of feeding back your understanding of what the other […]

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August 6th, 2020

“But I Was Just Trying To Help…”

By: Linda Adams

Throughout our lives, we have learned a variety of ways to help other people when they have strong feelings, thoughts […]

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June 10th, 2020

Why Don’t More Dads Come to Parent Effectiveness Training Classes?

By: Sheryl Wilde

Oftentimes in P.E.T. classes the majority of the participants are mothers, and this is common around the world. However, Gordon […]

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May 13th, 2020

How Active Listening Helped Me Get “Unstuck”

By: Jo Allan

I am an anxious person by nature, a germaphobe stuck in a consistent state of nervousness. In late February, as […]

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