by Sharon Bush | Sep 20, 2017 | Parenting, Sharon Bush
Pictured: Voss Road Flooded by Hurricane Harvey I was so proud when my son Pierce was named CEO of Big Brothers & Sisters Lone Star in 2015. As the largest Big Brothers Big Sisters agency in the world, it covers Houston, North Texas, and West Central Texas. Weeks...
by Sharon Bush | Sep 22, 2016 | Entrepreneurship, Parenting, Sharon Bush
When we think of raising our daughters to be entrepreneurs, we often think first of developing their money-smarts. And that’s important. No entrepreneur will be successful if they can’t develop, market, budget and invest in a savvy manner. But being an entrepreneur...
by Sharon Bush | Sep 13, 2016 | Parenting, Sharon Bush
According to psychologists, parents fall into one of four parenting styles — authoritative, uninvolved/neglectful, permissive, and authoritarian — that influence their children in dramatic ways. For instance, an uninvolved/neglectful parenting style can lead to a...
by Sharon Bush | Aug 16, 2016 | Parenting, Sharon Bush
Men are from Mars and women are from Venus, or so the saying goes. If that’s so, how do two interplanetary people co-parent children? Surely, their approaches to things like play and discipline will be different, informed not so much by the rules of the galaxy but the...
by Sharon Bush | Jul 12, 2016 | Parenting, Sharon Bush
Parenting is a lifelong commitment — and a challenging one at that. Back when I first became a mom, I remember thinking how my kids should have come with instructions, a kind of step-by-step parenting guide to follow. Parents-to-be can prepare all they want, but...