The principles of Positive Parenting can help you feel confident in your parenting journey from the birth of your child, into the toddlers years and beyond. Each age and stage will come with it’s own unique set of challenges. To help you navigate each stage of your child’s growth, you can check our all of… Continue Reading
Elementary Kids: Competent and Capable As They Explore
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. This continuing…
Preventing Failure is Not Equal to Encouraging Success
Sometimes I wish I could prevent every failure my children will ever face. No parent wants to see their child down, upset, limp, defeated. In failure, even if we’d rather not go through it, are moments of learning. So I will not prevent my children from failing. The truth is I wouldn’t be able to…
How to Discipline when your Child Tells Tall-Tales, Fibs and Lies
“My other mom lives down the street in that green house and she lets me play with the kitchen scissors all the time.” –told by Nicolas, age 4. Children lie, tell fibs, stretch a tale and tattle-tale. Lying, is actually a sign of intelligence. Nevertheless, lying is sometimes inappropriate and children may need guidance from…
6 Tips for Parenting a Shy Child
This is a guest post by Olga Mecking I am a shy person and an introvert. I have three children one of which can be considered shy. If you find yourself in a similar situation, here are six tips, both from my own experience and from what I read on parenting a shy child: 1) …
6 Fun Ways to Encourage Reading & Writing
Once children begin reading and writing on their own, it can seem like a whole new world opens up to them. Signs posted along the road, magazine headlines, signs at the grocery all become sources of information. While there are many “academic” focused ways to encourage reading and writing in those early days of stumbling…
How To Tell Whether Or Not Your Child Is Dyslexic
Dyslexia is still a relatively poorly understood condition that actually affects more children (and adults) than you might realize. As a parent you do of course want the best for your children, so being able to recognize the symptoms of dyslexia is important. Normally, dyslexia starts to be more noticeable during primary or elementary…
Do Consequences Actually Work?
A time out may stop a child from spitting or hitting. The threat of “no TV” may get a child to pick up his clothing from the floor. But…can consequences help children learn what to do instead of spitting or hitting? Will the continuous use of punitive consequences motivate children to be less messy, noisy,…
Preschoolers: Competent & Capable as They Discover
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. This continuing…
Encouraging Patience In Ourselves and Our Children: Nurturing Patience Part 2
Patience can’t be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it. ~ Eknath Easwaran *This is part two of the Nurturing Patience series by Kerry Spina* Patience is a character strength that helps us to slow down and practice mindfulness. It helps us work at…
One Word To Boost Your Child’s Confidence
Often, what holds children back from trying something new is fear of failure or the memory of a time they didn’t do well on something. We can help break that cycle by avoiding evaluative statements such as “good job” and opt to use encouraging words instead and offering our children opportunities to try things again…and…
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