Inside: How to Help Your Toddler Transition Well From One Activity to the Next without Tantrums It was time to close up playgroup, a classic toddler transition time that often ends up with one or more children crying. On this day it was no different. A little boy sat on a mini blue trike, holding…
Best Practices for Screen Time Management for Young Children
Screen time management ideas to help you connect with your child and limit technology use in a positive way. For most kids, summer is a time of freedom – from classrooms, strict schedules and the general humdrum of the school year. But summer also means more screen time. Time on gaming devices, tablets and other…
Three Alternatives to Punishment That Help Your Child Do Better
Inside: Discover alternatives to punishment that help your child do better when they are misbehaving. When children are misbehaving, like using back talk, hitting a sibling or refusing to go to bed it might feel challenging to address the situation without resorting to punishments like time out, yelling or grounding. Children benefit from discipline and…
5 Powerful Questions For Setting Limits on Your Child’s Behavior
Inside: Five questions to help you set limits instead of using punishment when your child misbehaves. “I have tried using warnings, time outs and taking my son’s toys away when he acts out, hits his sister and just overall doesn’t listen to me but it doesn’t work. I hear a lot about setting limits but I…
Consequences Might Be Keeping Your Child Stuck Misbehaving
Inside: Consequences can keep children feeling discouraged and stuck on misbehaving. Discover positive alternatives that help children behave well. Late in the afternoon, on the way home from school, my son took hold of my hand and started talking softly. He spoke so quietly, I could tell something unusual was going on. “I got kicked…
Three Positive Parenting Steps to Transform Misbehavior into Cooperation
Stop your child’s misbehavior and increase listening by following simple positive discipline steps that encourage cooperation. There were jeans and inside out t-shirts scattered between legos and nerf darts. It was almost the end of the day and my son hadn’t picked up his room. I had asked him earlier in the day, probably more…
Tantrum and Anger Management Using A Calming Kit
Inside: Calming Down isn’t Always Easy For Children. Help your child manage tantrums, anger and frustration and learn self-regulation skills with a calming kit. “Got anything I can smash around here?” asked my daughter with a crinkly face and closed fists one day. Anger management and self regulation are skills that children need practice to master….
Help Siblings Get Along With These Five Positive Parenting Tools
Inside: Five Positive Tools for Helping Siblings Solve Conflicts and Get Along The following is adapted from Rebecca’s new book, The Positive Parenting Workbook. This inspiring and inviting guide walks readers through the process of charting a new path toward greater emotional awareness, clear communication, and joyful parenting! Filled with encouraging prompts and plenty of…
Effectively Help Your Misbehaving Child With These Brain Based Discipline Techniques
Discipline Your Misbehaving Child With Positive and Proven Strategies. Do you really want to spend the next several years with your child shouting, threatening, nagging and feeling exasperated day in and day out? Here are proven positive strategies to change behavior and help your child grow responsible and healthy.
Kids Routine Charts and Using Positive Discipline To Make them Work
Over the summer, my 9 year old daughter began having trouble falling asleep. “I just can’t sleep!!” she whined (and she really meant it.) After several weeks of trying to talk her out of her insomnia, I decided a new bedtime routine was in order. We brainstormed the steps, and decided to include a short…
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