RHETT SMITH

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• • Parenting,
  • Podcast

• Rhett Smith 74: What Are You and Your Kid's Expectations of this School Year? Capitalizing on Connection, Time, and Risk Taking....

• on August 23, 2016
• So if your day was anything like my wife and I's yesterday, it involved walking our kids into their first day of school this year. My daughter starts 4th grade, and my son starts Kindergarten. And like many of you, we are in a new transition as we begin a new school year. One filled with excitement, anxieties, fears, joys, ups and downs, and all kinds of emotions in between there. After droppin[...]

 

• • Marriage,
  • Podcast

• Rhett Smith 73: You Can't Have Both a Great Marriage and an Activity Centered Life that Puts Your Kids First

• on August 17, 2016
• I have the great privilege of working with couples in my office on a daily basis. Some come to me before they are married, some within a few years of marriage, but the great majority of them come to see me after a crisis that was indicative of the marital drift in their life. In Episode 19 of my podcast I talked about marital drift and the kid centered marriage. But essentially what often happ[...]

 

• • Marriage,
  • Parenting

• Rhett Smith 72: Navigating Relationships in the Daily Transitions

• on August 11, 2016
• One of the things that I've noticed a lot about relationships and conflict, is that a lot of it tends to happen in periods of daily transition. For example, conflict tends to arise when people are leaving the house in the morning, or coming home later in the day. Whether it's a spouse, roommate, or child, there tends to be a lot of missed expectations in those two periods of the day. Maybe it's th[...]