by Jenifer Truitt, Executive Director Ziglar Family There are countless things that I worry about doing "wrong" as a parent, from how I manage my girls' technology usage to whether I'm doing enough to teach them how to survive in the 'real world' when it gets here (sooner than I am ready for!). One thing [...]
by Jenifer Truitt, Executive Director of Ziglar Family Smartphones, tablets, or the Internet can be addictive because their use can trigger the release of the brain chemical dopamine to alter mood — which is exactly what drugs and alcohol do. That's a pretty sobering thought, isn't it? (No pun intended.) And just like with alcohol [...]
In this week's Ziglar Family blog, we're going a little bit rogue, and instead of sharing written thoughts, we're sharing video! (So I guess that makes this a Vlog instead of a Blog?) Recently we've been hearing from many of our Ziglar Family community members with topics they'd like to see discussed here, and one [...]
Editor's note: This post comes from a resource created by renowned pediatrician, Dr. Meg Meeker, exclusively for Ziglar Family. For more from Dr. Meeker, check out her video from our most recent 7 Day Challenge! Trying to parent strong-willed children can often be enough to make even the most patient parents lose their cool. How [...]
December 2017 Thrive Family Resource: Family Board Meetings Earlier this month, we shared with you a fantastic interview with Jim Sheils, author of Family Board Meetings. Now, Jim has provided our community members with this free, downloadable resource on Family Board Meetings. It's an awesome tool that gives you an overview of the concept, plus [...]
Note from Mark Timm, CEO Ziglar Family: Last year at this time, I published the following post, and the reaction was huge! The message seemed to really strike a chord with our community, and to this day it remains our most-read and most-reacted-to post. I'm publishing it again, in case you either didn't read it [...]
Jim Sheils & Family Board Meetings Ziglar Family COO, Jenifer Truitt interviews Jim Sheils about a fantastic concept he has coined: Family Board Meetings. For those of you who have not come across Jim or his work, he is the co-founder of Board Meetings International, a company that specializes in parent/child retreats using a [...]
by Mark Timm, CEO Ziglar Family Do you know what you want to accomplish in 2018? What goals do you have for yourself and your family? This past year was another great year for the Timm family—our best year ever, in fact! We achieved far more than we ever dreamed possible. But it didn’t happen [...]
Note from Mark Timm, CEO Ziglar Family: Happy post-Thanksgiving to all of our American readers, and happy holiday season "kick-off" to all! This week, I'm turning over the pen to my wife, Ann, for our weekly blog post. She loves Thanksgiving and all of the subsequent holiday traditions more than anyone I've ever met, so [...]
Note from Mark Timm, CEO Ziglar Family: I came across a great post recently by author, blogger, and columnist Leslie Anne Tarabella that I knew I had to share with our Ziglar Family community. In this post, Leslie Anne shares how she and her husband outwitted their stubborn 3-year-old who wasn't keen on using his [...]
