Author Archives: Ariadne Brill

Three Important Steps To Take After Yelling At Your Kids

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Three Important Steps To Take After Yelling At Your Kids

Even if we can’t parent in the most nurturing ways all the time, the more often we can, the more our children get what they need, the better they will be able to weather the times when we parent in less nurturing ways. Learning to recover when we make a mistake really does help restore connection, models really important skills to our children and helps things shift back into the positive. It takes just 3 steps towards restoring connection. Continue Reading

10 Helpful Strategies for Parenting Super High Energy Kids

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10 Helpful Strategies for Parenting Super High Energy Kids

So how to handle over-wound, exuberant, annoying behaviors in a positive way? Everyone has their own personality and style. Embrace your child for who they are, that kind of acceptance alone will help you see that their behaviors are often just an expression of who they are and how they approach the world, not things done to annoy you. Continue Reading

Six Super Helpful Ways To Keep Calm and Deal With Defiance

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Six Super Helpful Ways To Keep Calm and Deal With Defiance

These Six Positive Parenting strategies can help you respond to your child when they are behaving in defiant, disrespectful or unhelpful ways. Children often act out when they are lost, fearful and in need of guidance. A child that is being defiant needs to reconnect with you and find his way back to calm. And until… Continue Reading

Why Gentle Discipline is The Best Discipline for Your Baby

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Why Gentle Discipline is The Best Discipline for Your Baby

How To Discipline Your Baby In A Positive Way Responding positively to your baby teaches him to trust you and your guidance. While babies are growing they may do certain things, like spitting, hitting or kicking when upset, throwing food down from a high chair or taking a toy away from a playmate. These behaviors… Continue Reading

How To Reduce Power Struggles and Find More Happiness In The Holiday Season

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How To Reduce Power Struggles and Find More Happiness In The Holiday Season

A store cashier asked my daughter recently, “Are you being a good girl for Santa?”  And then a few minutes later in the parking garage an elderly couple asked her same question. After a quick smile she turned to me.  Her face was all twisted up, eyes looking far away with a hint of overwhelm. The… Continue Reading

Why Children Misbehave Again and Again – And How to Stop It without Yelling

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Why Children Misbehave Again and Again – And How to Stop It without Yelling

Inside: Why young children misbehave even when you tell them not to do something. Learn what you can do to discipline in a positive way that helps children behave better. It was mid morning at playgroup and tension was rising between Theo and his mother. There was a phone,  perfectly placed on the edge of… Continue Reading

40 Questions That Get Kids Talking

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40 Questions That Get Kids Talking

The best questions to get kids to talk and open up about their life One great way to encourage children to open up is to make a habit of cherishing daily conversations with your child. Conversations build connection. When children feel connected to their parent, they are more likely to feel well and be cooperative. Why should… Continue Reading

The Very Important Reason Children Need To Learn To Stand Up To Bullies

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The Very Important Reason Children Need To Learn To Stand Up To Bullies

The stronger your relationship with your child the more your child will feel well, secure and capable of facing daily challenges. Treating children with respect when setting limits is part of an effective parenting strategy. So is listening attentively and focusing on emotion coaching and problem solving instead of trying to win power struggles and impose consequences. Continue Reading

Clingy Toddlers are Not Spoiled Here is How to Handle This Very Normal Childhood Phase

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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. Continue Reading

One Sure Way To Encourage Cooperation in Early Childhood

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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 ways to encourage cooperation and listening. Toddlers and pre-schoolers are notorious for saying “NO!” “I can’t” and “I don’t want to!” especially in moments when we would like to hear “yes mama!” and “OK” In… Continue Reading

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