Positive Parenting focuses on cooperation and solutions. The following phrases encourages your child and you to work together. Bonus: The more cooperation, the less likely you are to encounter power struggles with your child. One component of encouraging cooperation is attuning ourselves to the needs and ideas of our children and finding ways to incorporate… Continue Reading
Happy Sunday, Sharing four articles today, a range of topics from reading, crying to potty issues. For the upcoming week, I will be posting a lovely and insightful interview with Kelly Bartlett who is a fellow Positive Discipline Parenting Educator, some ideas to enhance cooperation and how to deal with messy messy play! From… Continue Reading
We don’t have to be perfect parents to be loving, caring, supportive parents. Our children should not have to be perfect to receive our affection and attention. When we become more realistic in our expectations of ourselves and our children we can start to truly enjoy the gift that it is to be together and… Continue Reading
Welcome to the May edition of the Authentic Parenting Blog Carnival, hosted by Authentic Parenting and Mudpiemama. This month’s topic is “Parenting Practices and Criticism”. Please scroll down to the end of this post to find a list of links to the entries of the other participants. Enjoy! *** When I became a parent, I… Continue Reading
The morning rush…getting dressed, teeth brushed, to find that back pack, or a favorite teddy. Sometimes our children just start taking their sweet old time getting ready. The clock starts ticking, and everyone feels the crunch…What’s a parent to do to get kids out the door on time without being a drill sergeant, without threats… Continue Reading
Welcome to the Carnival of Weaning: Weaning – Your Stories This post was written for inclusion in the Carnival of Weaning hosted by Code Name: Mama and Aha! Parenting. Our participants have shared stories, tips, and struggles about the end of the breastfeeding relationship. Breastfeeding is a special time for both moms and babies. Often when… Continue Reading
Sometimes parenting does not go the way we planned, things seems to be going wrong, or just not the way we thought it would or “should” be. Maybe our child(ren) are not cooperating or listening, they are clingy or the days feel long or we don’t get enough sleep, patience or time just runs out. When… Continue Reading
Parents often believe that demanding obedience from their child is the only way to get them to do what the parents expect of them, like doing homework, brushing teeth, cleaning up and so on. The problem is, obedience implies that a child is doing something without any choice, simply complying with a command. Demanding obedience… Continue Reading
Sometimes we fall into the habit of waiting for the negative behaviors of our children to show up and really hang around before we change certain situations. For instance, have you ever asked your child to come along on a boring errand, you have no distractions on hand, your child gets bored, maybe starts whining,… Continue Reading
Are you a Pinterest worthy parent? Does Pinterest give you Pinsecurity? Do you ever go on pinterest and wonder why you can’t be more like this or that? Wonder why you can’t oh! so effortlessly create, cook, organize, dress, craft or re-invent something? Pinterest has this way of making it seem like there is this next level. A level… Continue Reading