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
Nurturing Peacefulness #2
Peacefulness helps us to learn to cope with stress and bring what is out of balance into harmony. We begin to create an atmosphere where peace is felt and experienced in our presence. And we become open to listen to our own feelings and actions and model to our children what matters to us. We naturally become more forgiving and gentle with ourselves and others and our energy is restored and centred.
Four Simple Steps For Creating Family Rules
Creating and using family rules can be a positive and family oriented activity. Family rules do not need to be a long exhausting list of “can’t dos” to be effective either. Here are some ideas to consider when writing up family rules:
Sticker Charts: Do All Kids Want One?
why do so many people in charge of caring for and motivating children continue to use reward charts? Some things are inherently motivating to children, like loving attention, food, approval, affectionate touch, smiles and eye contact. However, these are precisely the things we should avoid using as rewards and punishments with our children if we want to show them our love is unconditional.
What’s Under the Angst?
It takes a lot more finesse and attention to help create safety in the exploration than it does to simply shut it down. Making mistakes with livable consequences are great ways to learn. The bummer about shutting down all crazy explorations is that kids will lose their own internal sense of how to create safety within the adventure
Toddlers And Hitting: Help, Ideas and Resources
Toddlers and hitting is a common challenge for parents, so much so it’s often referred to as a behavior problem. But really, getting toddlers to stop hitting often comes down to understanding the reasons toddlers hit, understanding how hitting make us parents feel. They way we react to children hitting can either fuel the problem or lead towards better connection and helping our child learn different ways to express their feelings.Often the more negatively we feel about the hitting the more we might inadvertently prolong the problem.
Nurturing Peacefulness
Peacefulness helps us to learn to cope with stress and bring what is out of balance into harmony. We begin to create an atmosphere where peace is felt and experienced in our presence. And we become open to listen to our own feelings and actions and model to our children what matters to us.
Positive Parenting Tools: Time In vs. Time Out
Most parents that use time out do so with good intentions and sometimes, a time out can give parents and children a chance to take a break from each other to cool off. However, non punitive parenting tools such as Time In are really effective in helping children develop life long skills such as regulating emotions and making decisions. It’s a mistaken but deeply ingrained notion that children need to feel bad about their behavior in order to change it. Learn more about time in and time out.
10 Party Games that Foster Cooperation
Children truly enjoy working together and cooperation and birthday parties and celebrations are a great place to practice these skills.
These ten activities focus on working together, problem solving, and cooperation, and they are so much fun that no one will miss the competition.
Connecting With Kids While Keeping Fit: 6 Tips for Cycling as a Family
Now, at the ages of 4 and 6, our two intrepid cyclists are faster than mum and dad, do an 8-10 mile run no problem and positively look forward to bike trips. So what have we, as parents, learned about making our family bike rides successful? Here are our top 6 tips.
Helping Children Learn To Overcome Frustration & Failures
Trust that your child is capable of doing things, solving problems and overcoming his feelings. This doesn’t mean we cannot be helpful, encouraging or be a supportive presence but it does mean it’s alright to let them go ahead and feel their feelings and do things on their own keeping in mind what is age appropriate and safe.
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