Hello! My name is Lauren Rodenbeck (Rebman). I am a licensed Marriage and Family Therapy Associate at Adventures In Learning. It is a pleasure to be a part of such a wonderful family business, and I’m thrilled with the new opportunity to share my professional thoughts and stories on this blog! For my first entry, […]
Read the rest of this entry »We’re Back!
Hello! Obviously, I recently took a sabbatical from blogging and am now back online ready to continue posting. Like before, we will be posting informative, challenging, and inspiring ideas to help improve the overall quality of life for those who choose to follow our entries. I used the term “we” because in my leave my daughter, Lauren, joined our […]
Read the rest of this entry »Critical Thinking: Why ask why?
I remember when our daughter was around 3 or 4 years old and it seemed like 90% of her vocabulary consisted of the word “why.” Everything generated a question and there was not an aswer that would satisfy her curiosity. At that age, children are learning about cause and effect and the process of questioning […]
Read the rest of this entry »Does encouragement really influence performance?
Really believe in your heart of hearts that your fundamental purpose, the reason for being, is to enlarge the lives of others. Your life will be enlarged also. And all of the other things we have been taught to concentrate on will take care of themselves. Pete Thigpen Ask yourself this question: Do you need […]
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