The principles of Positive Parenting can help you feel confident in your parenting journey from the birth of your child, into the toddlers years and beyond. Each age and stage will come with it’s own unique set of challenges. To help you navigate each stage of your child’s growth, you can check our all of… Continue Reading
Ten Parenting Practices That Build Your Child’s Self-Esteem
Inside: Children with positive self-esteem recognize their abilities and feel proud about what they are able to. You can actively help build your child’s self-esteem by fostering connection, being encouraging and welcoming mistakes. After jumping down from a tree at the park my son stood up, did a little victory dance and then ran off…
How Empathy Helps When Your Child Acts Out
Parenting Your Child through Big Emotions Can be Challenging. “You’re disappointed with my decision,” you say empathetically. “Yeah! It’s not fair! Everyone else gets to go…except me!” your child yells back. You extend your arms as a peace offering, attempting to connect through this difficult situation. Glaring at you, yelling, “This is the worst day ever!”…
The Discipline Solution For Back Talk That Actually Worked
How To Stop Back Talk From Toddlers to Tweens using positive parenting tools “May I please have two extra minutes to try and get across? I am just so close. If I can’t do it in two minutes, I will jump off, no matter what. Deal?” My son was referring to the monkey bars and…
How to Be a Confident Parent
Your son is on the floor, arms and legs flailing. Crying and screaming at the top of his lungs. He’s been like this for 10 minutes already. If you could read his mind in this moment, he might be thinking, “Mom! Please help me! I’m feeling so disappointed. I want to stop crying, but I…
Dance Break: An Awesome Alternative to Time-Out
For me, Attachment Parenting is simply this; treat your kids how you want them to grow up and treat you and others in their lives. Is this type of parenting easy? NO! Is this hard in the face of the predictable intense and challenging moments of parenting? Yes!
But parenting isn’t for sissies, it’s hard, but our kids are worth our efforts.
What to Say When You Don’t Know WHAT to Say to Your Kids
Sometimes, our kids come to us with big problems. Big worries. Big confessions or difficult questions. In a perfect world, we would have all of the answers. We’d know exactly how to respond and we’d say it with the ideal inflection and corresponding body language. But, in reality, big topics often turn into disastrous conversations…
The Night Before Christmas for Moms
It was the night before Christmas, when all thru the abode only one creature was stirring, and she was cleaning the commode. The children were finally sleeping, all snug in their beds, while visions of Ernie and Barbie flipped through their heads. The dad was snoring in front of the TV, with a half-constructed bicycle on…
25 Fun Year End Interview Questions For Kids
If your child isn’t very chatty, I encourage you to ask just a few questions at a time. We have also sometimes taken these questions and placed them into a jar for family meal conversations starters too.
What you Don’t Want to Say to Stop Unwanted Behaviors
How often do you use the word ‘don’t’ to stop unwanted behaviour in your children? Does it actually work? Most parents say it does not. When I first became aware of the little impact this word has, it threw me. I had no idea how often I was using it, and how often it left…
Discipline: Teaching Through Love Instead of Fear
“However we treat the child, the child will treat the world.” – Pam Leo Can you imagine threatening your partner or good friend by counting “One… two… three…” if he or she did not do what you wanted? However we treat the child…the child will treat the world One of the big issues in schools…
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