Positive Parenting can help toddlers feel safe, loved, capable and cooperative. Toddlers love to test limits and say no. Sometimes toddlers may cry a lot. For that reason, toddlers get quite the reputation for being terrible… But the toddler years don’t have to be terrible. The so called terrible two’s can be in fact quite terrific.… Continue Reading
The Most Powerful And Punishment Free Way To Better Behavior
How to discipline your child without punishments. Helping children behave better and learn from their mistakes with positive discipline is very effective. Learn how to change your child’s behavior without using punishments, yelling or bribes. When my son was four years old, he was sweet, funny and quite mischievous.Just a moment unsupervised and something was…
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 them stay awake to talk with you for an extra ten minutes, whatever kind act it may be, children thrive on love and kindness. What about when your child is having a tantrum? Did you…
Positive Parenting: Why Keeping Our Limits When Children Become Upset is Important
When we let go of punitive parenting and authority over the child style of parenting, setting a limit with kindness and consistency and then actually holding it may at first feel similar to punishing or being authoritarian. With time and practice though, it is possible to be confident, calm and consistent in a way that conveys that the limits are about creating safety, building trust and guidance.
Using Time In instead of Time Out for Toddler Misbehavior
Time Out for Toddlers are no longer recommended. Here is a step by step guide on how to use Time In when disciplining your child. Your hair fell off mama. I caught it for you. That’s what I heard one morning as I was waking up. Before me, stood my 2.5 year old, scissors in one hand,…
One Sure Way To Encourage Cooperation in Early Childhood
Inside: Positive ways for encouraging more cooperation from toddlers One very challenging task in the early years of parenting is finding ways to encourage cooperation and listening. Toddlers and pre-schoolers are notorious for saying “NO!” “I can’t” and “I don’t want to!” especially in moments when we would like to hear “yes mama!” and “OK” In…
Positive Parenting: Don’t Let Bad Moments Define Your Child as a Bad Kid
children will often become what their parents believe them to be. Don’t let a bad moment define your child as a bad kid.
How To Handle Toddler Temper Tantrums and Emotional Outbursts
When To Worry about Tantrums: Here’s a guide for understanding why tantrums happen and what really helps your child feel better and calm down. Most children have tantrums and emotional outbursts during the toddler years. Tantrums can also happen when children are three or four years old, and even later. Unless your toddler is crying…
How to Discipline Children Effectively without Quick Hacks and Punishments
Quick and clever discipline hacks tend to fail or make unwanted behaviors even worse. Discover here better, more effective and developmentally appropriate ways to discipline your child. Counting methods, sticker charts, automatic timers, fuzzy pom-poms and rubber bands…good discipline? These are some of the popular recommendations for dealing with misbehavior. If you tried all the…
6 Tips to Help a Child that is Afraid of Dogs
Find out how you can use positive parenting tips to help your child overcome fear or anxiety related to dogs. Some children are afraid of dogs. They may not have had a lot of positive experiences with dogs or perhaps had an incident which has made them fearful. Being anxious around dogs is quite normal for children…
How To Get Siblings To Stop Fighting and Get Along
Inside: Understand why siblings fight with each other and for attention and learn sibling conflict reduction parenting tools. “You are being mean!” said my son. His face filled with disappointment. “I’m never sharing my truck with you ever again.” He added, walking away with a deep sigh. I had been listening to my son and…
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