compassionate parenting

Keeping it Positive

by Heligirl on April 11, 2010

in Parenting Articles

If you see your child pulling the dog’s tail, what is the first thing that jumps into your head to say? If it’s something like “Don’t pull the dog’s tail,” then you’re like most everyone out there. I know I was raised with “don’t do this,” “don’t do that” and it comes naturally to say […]

Beware of Praise

by Heligirl on March 26, 2010

in Parenting Articles

Earlier this week I attended a Compassionate Parenting class, the last in a set of three, offered through my co-op preschool program. This class is based very much on the Sanity Circus class I took last year. It is basically the Positive Discipline curriculum, but the small print says the instructor can’t call it that […]