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Posted in Daily Ramblings, Parenting Articles on Jul 30th, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Another installment in my Positive Discipline Articles.
By popular demand, the following is reprinted from a guest post I did for Molly and Mommy on May 24, 2010.
I have to admit, when Alissa asked me to write a guest post on sleep I cringed. It’s hard to find a hotter issue for moms of young [...]
Posted in Daily Ramblings, Parenting Articles on Jul 19th, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Another installment in my Positive Discipline Articles.
Recently I had the great fortune of crossing paths with Amy McCready, founder of Positive Parenting Solutions, Inc. She runs a very comprehensive educational website chocked full of parenting advice focused solely toward helping parents raise capable, well behaved children with high self esteem.
Amy offers a free webinar that [...]
Posted in Parenting Articles, Positive Discipline on Jun 6th, 2010 | 12 Comments »
Another installment in my Positive Discipline articles.
I’m inspired by the iPhone app I recently got called Positive Discipline Cards, which helps me resolve problems by providing quick, simple positive discipline techniques at the push of a button. I’ve been playing with it a lot, and in many cases, putting it to work. In fact, I’ve [...]
Posted in Parenting Articles on May 31st, 2010 | 9 Comments »
In the heat of the moment, when your child is acting out and you’re at the end of your rope, how do you keep to your positive discipline parenting? Just as I’m starting to truly put these methods to work with my 2 1/2-year old, I was really excited to learn Jane Nelsen recently released [...]
Posted in Parenting Articles on May 16th, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Another installment in my Positive Discipline Articles.
Today revealed a whole new side to my little girl I’m far from prepared to handle, despite all my Positive Discipline study. Mr. Man turned one this past week and it was all Sweetness could do to deal with it. First, she was forced to look at all [...]
Posted in Parenting Articles on May 5th, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Another installment in my Positive Discipline Articles.
One valuable lesson I’ve learned in Positive Discipline is to take time and prepare my kids for transitions. I follow this religiously and have since Sweetness was about one year old. It really truly works and has helped steer us clear of so many tantrums.
When I talk about transitions [...]
Posted in Parenting Articles on Apr 27th, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Another installment in my Positive Discipline Articles
My buddy Kris brought up a great point in the comments to my last article, When Discipline Goes Bad. Setting your little one up for success is a big part of positive discipline. In fact, that is one of the 12 strategies in this article.
In Laura David and Janis [...]
Posted in Parenting Articles on Apr 19th, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Another installment in my Positive Discipline articles.
I took the kids to Lincoln Park today. As we sat down on the rocky beach in the balmy 70 degrees and watch the birds, ferries and helicopters (that’s what was out there), I began to overhear this mom trying to discipline her child. I think the boy was [...]
Posted in Parenting Articles on Apr 11th, 2010 | 4 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Parenting Articles on Apr 3rd, 2010 | Comment Here »
During one of my parent group sessions at preschool last year, our parent facilitator shared a handout with us about the importance of caring for ourselves in the overall scheme of providing positive discipline for our children. Yes, it seemed rather intuituve that if my needs were met, I’d be in a better position to [...]