Kindness During a Tantrum: 10 Ways to Show you Care
Kindness is a wonderful thing. Surprising your child with a new book, fresh whipped cream atop their favorite fruits or letting […]
peaceful parenting
When Children Bite and Strike: 5 Positive Ways To Deal and Heal
Hitting, pushing, shoving and biting are common ways for preschoolers and toddlers to deal with their emotions. Strikes and bites
Toddlers making Trouble: 11 Helpful Alternatives to Timeout
Toddlers don’t really mean to be making trouble, they spend their days trying to understand and discover their environment, their place and space in the world.
Often, it’s hard to know how to best handle the messy, sassy, yucky situations. Time outs are so popular in the toddler years, yet just placing a toddler in the corner or on a naughty chair is unlikely to prevent a re-occurance as toddlers will not really learn by pouting all alone
Parenting
Sharing Sundays #2
Happy Sunday! In the second round of Sharing Sunday – here are a few articles and posts I came across
Alternatives to Punishment, Parenting
Three Real Alternatives to Spanking
Last week I read an article in Healthland/Time about Parents Spanking Their Kids. Very honestly, I did not find it
Family Communication, Kids 5 - 12 years, Positive Discipline
Rivalry To Harmony Part 2: Five Games To Promote Team Work Among Siblings
In a different post, I wrote about avoiding and solving conflicts through play. One of the things I wrote about was how
Help By Age & Stage, Parenting, Positive Discipline
Four Alternatives to Punishment: Positive Solutions in Practice
being punishment free really worked in our day to day lives. Among other things, we use replacement, choices, playfulness and empathy.
Here are four examples from the past week which illustrate how we are practicing finding positive solutions.
Television, Guilt and Jumping Jacks.
So my children watch television and often I feel guilty about it. It’s not so bad that it keeps me