Parents often believe that demanding obedience from their child is the only way to get them to do what the parents expect of them, like doing homework, brushing teeth, cleaning up and so on. The problem is, obedience implies that a child is doing something without any choice, simply complying with a command. Demanding obedience…
Weekend Challenge: Be Pro-active Not Reactive
Sometimes we fall into the habit of waiting for the negative behaviors of our children to show up and really hang around before we change certain situations. For instance, have you ever asked your child to come along on a boring errand, you have no distractions on hand, your child gets bored, maybe starts whining,…
One Box, Three Games, Loads of Fun & Learning
Ever notice how children of all ages seem to just love playing with a cardboard box? Play is serious business for toddlers and preschoolers, it gives them a chance to understand, explore and learn! All three of my kiddos just absolutely love when we play with a cardboard box, they play together and usually come up with…
Parenting & Pinsecurity
Are you a Pinterest worthy parent? Does Pinterest give you Pinsecurity? Do you ever go on pinterest and wonder why you can’t be more like this or that? Wonder why you can’t oh! so effortlessly create, cook, organize, dress, craft or re-invent something? Pinterest has this way of making it seem like there is this next level. A level…
Weekend Challenge: Saying Yes to Love
Everyone wants to feel loved. Everyone NEEDS to feel loved. For many parents the connection between “good” behavior and showing love to a child is a very powerful one. Sometimes parents feel they must withhold love if a child is acting “badly”. This conditioned thought may stem from our own childhood where we felt approved and loved when…
Help! My Toddler is so Clingy.
Some days it can feel like toddlers wake up, walk by a giant container of glue and decide to stick themselves right onto us for the rest of the day. On these days, to manage even just a quick dash to the bathroom alone can be a difficult sometimes tear filled process. Let’s be honest,…
Guest Post: Who Should Come First Parent or Child?
Today I am welcoming Life Coach Tara with a guest post on the challenges of balancing needs and a special coaching opportunity. *** We all know the saying “I always put my child first” I often wonder why parents say this… I often wondered why “I” used to say this. Was it because I was…
Spank Out Day: 3 Untruths and 11 Alternatives to Spanking
Today is the 13th National Spank Out Day USA. Welcome to the Spank Out Day 2012 CarnivalThis post was written for inclusion in the Second Annual Spank Out Day Carnival hosted by Zoie at TouchstoneZ. Spank Out Day was created by The Center for Effective Discipline to give attention to the need to end corporal…
Sharing Sunday
It’s Sunday again! We had a wonderful family weekend with water play, swimming, dancing, swinging in beach-towels and eating popsicles. Tomorrow is Spank Out Day USA – I’ll be posting something on some untruths about spanking and offering a list of alternatives as well as links to other sites that are participating in Spank Out…
Weekend Challenge: The Optimistic Route
Whom would you rather be around: A complainer, who sees fault in everything, that can’t seem to stop nagging or demanding? OR Would you rather be in the company of someone that sees joy and delight, opportunity and possibility? Today, no matter what, try to choose the optimistic route. Decide to be encouraging, absorb all…
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