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Commitment that will make you a better parent - let your children experience different parts of the world

Brazil - The Amazon is the largest tropical rain forest on Earth and covers almost half of the continent of South America and more than half of the country of Brazil. 

What a great experience to visit the amazon rainforest with your children and wake up to the scream of the howler monkeys in the thick and dense rainforest! Learn about the wildlife and the amazonian way of doing things. There are hundreds of possible destinations to visit in a amazon jungle and different level accommodations.

Commitment that will make you a better parent - look for the reasons behind your teen's behaviour

 Japan - Zeniarai Benten Shrine is a popular shrine in western Kamakura, which people visit to wash their money (zeniarai means "coin washing"). It is said that money washed in the shrine's spring, will double.

Minamoto Yoritomo, the founder of the Kamakura government, ordered the shrine's construction after a god appeared in his dream and recommended him to build the shrine in order to bring peace to the country. Because the dream occurred on the day of the snake, in the month of the snake of the year of the snake, the shrine was later also dedicated to Benten, a Buddhist goddess associated with snakes.

Zeniarai Benten Shrine is a nice surviving example of the fusion of Buddhism and Shinto.

Commitment that will make you a better parent - communicate effectively with your teens

Delegation is the Secrecy if you want to raise independent self confident children

Urgent call missed, but no message left. She missed it. Elizabeth was finalising her Annual report, reviewing last a few numbers for a monthly report, a first draft of the presentation to the Board was on its way… Very busy period, she really wanted to finish her final review of the Annual Report to be ready to send to a printing agency next morning and not to be disturbed by anybody. 

Urgent call again. This time she picked it up.  It was Shelley, a very good friend of her. She explained that she and her husband, Andy, were having a hard time with their son Jason and daughter Laura. Especially this time they were not willing to listen to them and not willing work as hard for school as she and Andy  expected to be the case.  

" It seems, I have to do everything at home. I feel like a slave,” said Shelley.

“What you have to do", said Elizabeth, "is learn to delegate work you do for your children at home to your children". 

DELEGATION, is the secrecy if you want to raise independent and self-confident children”, said Elizabeth. 

“Yes, but Jason and Laura are not ready to do work at house as they are just seven and nine years old. They do not know how to cook," - said Shelley. "Then you need to teach them," said Elizabeth.

"But I don’t have time to teach them to cook, I have busy job, we are in the middle of the acquisitions at my work. My husband is busy as well.” - said Shelley. "If that's the case", Eliza sighed deeply "you do have a problem. Why don't you come to visit us this weekend and let's have a talk?”.

Commitment that will make you a better parent - spend time together with your teens

Titicaca or Titiqaqa (in Aymara and Quechua) is a lake in the Andes on the border of Peru and Bolivia. By volume of water, it is the largest lake in South America.
It is often called the highest navigable lake in the world, with a surface elevation of 3,812 metres (12,507 ft). You can visit there floating island which is a mass of floating aquatic plants, mud, and peat ranging in thickness from a few inches to several feet. Floating islands are a common natural phenomenon that are found in many parts of the world. They exist less commonly as a man-made phenomenon.

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