In today’s short #ThursdayThoughts blog post, we give you a glimpse into Owen Connolly’s views on how human beings are designed to survive, and how this relates to their personal development. Owen is the founder of the Connolly...
Read moreIn this #ThursdayThoughts post, we return to a common theme in our series of articles taken from Owen Connolly‘s book “Standing on the Shoulders of Giants”: Men – their roles in society and their importance in the lives of...
Read moreTeenagers may well be on many of our minds at present, what with the big exams underway for some and the long summer holidays started for others; so we thought we’d give you another brief insight into teenagers from Owen Connolly’s...
Read moreAlways and never. Right and wrong. Passionate and apathetic. Sometimes teenagers can be a mess of contradictions and difficult emotions, making them hard to engage with. Today’s #ThursdayThoughts blog post considers teenagers and their...
Read moreCHILDREN LEARN WHAT THEY LIVE If children live with criticism, They learn to condemn. If children live with hostility, They learn to fight. If children live with ridicule, They learn to be shy. If children live with shame, They learn to be...
Read moreWe’re back to our regular #ThursdayThoughts blog post today with a short but thought-provoking excerpt from Owen Connolly’s book for fathers entitled “Standing on the Shoulders of Giants”. As always Owen’s advice to...
Read moreSometimes it seems that all parents do, is worry! We worry about our abilities as parents, and the effects our parenting may have on our children, we worry about our children’s health and well-being (now and in the future), we worry about...
Read moreOften in our culture there can be a tendency to not be straightforward and to rather speak around a topic, for fear of offending someone, being seen as “not nice” or just not liking conflict. In today’s #ThursdayThoughts post...
Read moreAs individuals and as a society, we ask ourselves age-old parenting questions like, have we made the right choices, will our children turn out ok, what should we do differently, etc. And we also ask ourselves new questions like, should I get my...
Read moreCouples who are unable to have children, often turn to adoption to create the family that they had hoped for. But before they take this step, it is important that they consider the difficulties that they may encounter as parents of adopted...
Read moreToday’s #ThursdayThoughts post touches on a topic that has affected so many of us, perhaps too many. Have you been affected by divorce in your family, or know a family that has been? We hope that Owen’s thoughts from his book for...
Read moreAs we’ve written about before in this blog, it can be easy to let our own past determine the decisions we make in our parenting. This is especially true if we haven’t dealt with negative experiences from our childhood. Sometimes we...
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