3 simple Ideas to Encourage Children to Help with Chores
Children often enjoy doing household tasks because it gives them a sense of belonging and a feeling of capability. Yet, […]
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Coping When Babies Don’t Sleep: 10 Ideas to Avoid Crying It Out Training
Sleep and nighttime parenting is one hot topic when it comes to newborns and babies and even into toddlerhood. This
Discipline for Young Children: 12 Alternatives to Time Outs
Here are twelve alternatives to time outs that give parents and children a chance to address choices and situations with the intention to offer guidance while maintaining a positive, respectful and peaceful connection. These alternatives are mostly geared towards children aged 1 to 6 years but also work well beyond that too.
3 Examples of Moving From Compliance to Cooperation
Using compliance as a parenting strategy commonly involves conflicts, power struggles and threats of losing a privilege, punishment or bribery.
10 Playful Solutions For Morning & Evening Routines : Parents S.H.A.R.E
“Play is our brain’s favorite way of learning.” -Diane Ackerman In this Parents S.H.A.R.E. post, our positive parenting community is sharing how they have used play as a parenting tool when faced with a variety of challenges during the morning and evening routines, from races to singing silly songs here are many fun ideas!!
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8 Ideas for Creating A Peaceful Bed Time Routine for Young Children & Giveaway
Healthy sleep habits are such an important and vital part of healthy development for children, yet for many families, the bed time routine is a huge hassle. When children resist going to sleep, refuse to brush teeth, have a sudden inability to put on pajamas and start whining “I just can’t do it” and “I’m not going to sleep” it’s hard to stay calm. Here are 8 Ideas that may be helpful towards creating a more peaceful bed time routine for young children.
Chill-Out Corner: A PositiveTool for Learning Emotional Self Regulation
The basic idea is that it will help diffuse situations before they escalate into chaos. Even if this doesn’t happen often young children can get overwhelmed by big emotions in their tiny bodies, whether its frustration or anger or sadness and this provides him an appropriate outlet for these because we all know big emotions can escalate into yelling, shouting, name calling, lashing out, tantrums and even physical attacks which we do not want.
Positive Parenting: Help Your Child Stop Whining
If a child is whining when trying something new, it could mean he is feeling scared or anxious. the sooner you can respond and help your child move beyond the whine and onto addressing the real issue at hand the better. You don’t have to give in to the whine, but rather get to the real issue and meet your child’s need. This not only stops the whine, it also builds trust and strengthens your connection!