Children Are Wired For Empathy And Insisting On Apologies Is Not Necessary
Knowing how to make amends is a very valuable life skill. As children grow they have many opportunities to apologize […]
Family Communication
learn to communicate with children effectively, conflict resolution, talk so children will listen, listen so children will talk. help for families, behavior problems in families, help with parenting
How To Stop Power Struggles with a Very Assertive Child
If you have a child that is getting into power struggles with you, you also have a child that is
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
What is the Difference between Praise and Encouragement?
focusing on their abilities/strengths/qualities–things you want to encourage for they help our children become more confident, feel more capable, able to take risks, to rally from mistakes, to move through struggle. To know “I can really use my brain” sets a child up to work through a tough homework problem in an empowering way. Hearing “You are so smart!” can leave a child at a loss when they don’t do well on a test, or when they can’t figure out a problem. Using “You CAN be” instead of “You ARE…” gives a child the chance to be something else. Empowering!
Positive Parenting: Better Behavior Without Punishment Is Possible
Inside: Using positive parenting makes it possible to encourage better behavior without resorting to punishment and yelling. A few years
Your Child May Have The Best Solution For Unwanted Behavior
My then 3-year old son and I were at our favorite family camp one summer. My son loved to play
When your Child Says: I Hate You!
Responding calmly to “I hate you” isn’t always easy but that in that moment, our children really need us to be sensitive, compassionate, loving and empathetic.
Avoid Power Struggles using this Problem Solving Script
Inside: Learn how to Avoid Power Struggles and problem solve when you and your child have conflicting opinions. The bathroom
Three Important Steps To Take After Yelling At Your Kids
Even if we can’t parent in the most nurturing ways all the time, the more often we can, the more our children get what they need, the better they will be able to weather the times when we parent in less nurturing ways. Learning to recover when we make a mistake really does help restore connection, models really important skills to our children and helps things shift back into the positive. It takes just 3 steps towards restoring connection.
Six Super Helpful Ways To Keep Calm and Deal With Defiance
These Six Positive Parenting strategies can help you respond to your child when they are behaving in defiant, disrespectful or