Have A Happy Holiday Season With These Proven Parenting Tips
The holiday season can be a big trap for stress and parenting self-sabotage. For the next several weeks, you may have high […]
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How To Stop Power Struggles with a Very Assertive Child
If you have a child that is getting into power struggles with you, you also have a child that is
How To Get Siblings To Stop Fighting and Get Along
Inside: Understand why siblings fight with each other and for attention and learn sibling conflict reduction parenting tools. “You are
What is the Difference between Praise and Encouragement?
focusing on their abilities/strengths/qualities–things you want to encourage for they help our children become more confident, feel more capable, able to take risks, to rally from mistakes, to move through struggle. To know “I can really use my brain” sets a child up to work through a tough homework problem in an empowering way. Hearing “You are so smart!” can leave a child at a loss when they don’t do well on a test, or when they can’t figure out a problem. Using “You CAN be” instead of “You ARE…” gives a child the chance to be something else. Empowering!
The Special Tool for Replacing Anger and Frustration with Calm Connection
I’m sure you know the drill—buttons pushed, kids not listening, fighting in the backseat of the car. Whining, sassing, talking-back,
Your Child May Have The Best Solution For Unwanted Behavior
My then 3-year old son and I were at our favorite family camp one summer. My son loved to play
How to Discipline When A New Baby Arrives and Siblings Act Out
Inside: Understanding regression and misbehavior in your child after the birth of a baby sibling. I’m having a very trying
One of The Most Wonderful Gifts You Can Give Your Child
When our kids are messing up or misbehaving, it’s so easy to slip into responses that are just the opposite of encouraging. Unlike praise, you can give encouragement any time at all, even when your child is failing, and that is often when they need it most.
Clingy Toddlers are Not Spoiled Here is How to Handle This Very Normal Childhood Phase
Toddler brains are just not mature enough to really know safe from unsafe just yet. Not even at age three or five are children’s brains fully mature enough to really respond well to distress, real or imagined. Clingy toddlers, don’t cling forever. When reassured, loved, and cared for in this stage, toddlers may blossom into confident, capable, happy children.
One Sure Way To Encourage Cooperation in Early Childhood
Inside: Positive ways for encouraging more cooperation from toddlers One very challenging task in the early years of parenting is finding