*This is a guest post from Christine Maddox* There are often challenges that come with parenting a child with a diagnosis of ADHD, often centering around positive ways to encourage a child to stay focused for example on household tasks like picking up a room or doing homework. Challenges can spill into school as well,…
Responding Gently To a Tantrum
Children most often have tantrums when they are feeling overwhelmed and unable to express their frustration, anger or upset feelings. Although popular advice may center around ignoring, walking away or using time-outs, gently responding to a tantrum is a wonderful way to connect and meet a young child’s needs and help them learn self…
Toddlers: Competent & Capable As They Grow
Including your toddler in the process of life—be it dressing, eating, cooking, cleaning, loading in the car, doing errands—is essential for building healthy, strong relationships and self-directed, capable, confident adults.
Love Books Summer Exchange: Transforming Trash into Toys we Treasure
Transforming Trash into Toys this summer turned out to be a wonderful experience for my children as well as a huge reminder that simple is often more than good enough!!
Positive Parenting: Stress Less and Enjoy Parenting
Do you find yourself worrying or stressed about parenting? Do you feel awful or guilty when you lose your temper or worry about the right way to praise, encourage and discipline? What would happen if you stopped worrying about how to pull this parenting thing off perfectly, and focused instead on somethings that make practicing…
Babies: Competent & Capable from Birth
Our children are capable, competent beings from birth. Often the struggles we find ourselves caught in with our children can be eased by recognizing and honoring their age appropriate capabilities. And with their capable, competent selves appreciated and affirmed, we can now build a strong foundation for the future independent and successful adult we all hope for. Isnʼt this…
Respectful Parenting: The Way We Treat Our Children Matters
The way we treat our children directly impacts what they believe about themselves. Having respectful interactions with our children is not only important, it is at the heart of raising respectful kids. Respectful Parents Raise Respectful Kids Most parents would like to raise respectful, caring cooperative kids. But so often we end up modeling disrespect. When…
Patience is Not Just About Waiting: Nurturing Patience Part 1
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience ~ Rolph Waldo Emmerson Patience is a character strength that helps us to slow down and practice mindfulness. It helps us work at our own natural pace. It allows us to respond to life’s challenges rather than react to them. Patience brings more love, calm, peace…
Positive Parenting: Do You See Your Wonderful Child?
Sometimes we get caught up with all the things we believe our children have to do, know and understand. We focus so much on how to change behaviors and control emotions. There are huge expectations, not just of our children but of ourselves. We want magical formulas or the best way to get children to…
Mama, Please Wait!
Sometimes we get caught up in complaining that our children are not responding to us when we would like them to. We think they are dawdling, or taking their “sweet time,” or “dragging their feet” or just being “selfish.” Here’s the thing though, how long does it take for us to respond to a…
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