This parenting journey is quite the job. Despite my most valiant efforts and deep commitment to positive discipline, I often find myself making and correcting mistakes. And the first thought that runs through my mind when I make a mistake is “I’m a failure, I’m a bad mom, My kids are going to need therapy.” [...]
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When it comes to positive discipline, advice on potty training, or toilet training, is painfully simple. Wait for your child to exhibit the signs, don’t push, don’t reward, and don’t praise. In fact, when it comes to potty training, we parents and caregivers can be our own biggest obstacle, trying to push, reward, praise and [...]
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I am such a firm believer in Positive Discipline and positive discipline advocate Jane Nelsen. Her parenting advice has made a real difference in my life. I follow her blog and receive her RSS feed. She posted the following great story last week. I was so inspired I asked permission to repost it here, hoping [...]
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We all need respect, including our children. Remember the old adage that children are to be seen but not heard. Does this sound respectful to you? It’s sad what that kind of attitude did to self esteem. It developed a huge group of people who still feel they don’t deserve to be respected. I received [...]
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How we react to a child’s actions and words can be instrumental in whether children become encouraged or discouraged. It takes practice for even the most well intentioned of us to use encouraging language all the time. Lord knows I still slip up. Remember, in the end, the important thing is to be encouraging more [...]
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We have meetings at work, meetings with friends, and meetings for volunteer and fun organizations. Why don’t we all do the same with our families? Family meetings, a powerful positive discipline strategy, provide multiple benefits for kids and parents alike in today’s hectic world. It’s especially valuable as the kids get older with full schedules [...]
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If you’ve been keeping up with my posts here on Heligirl, you know I’m a pretty adamant fan of Positive Discipline. One of my very favorite authors of books on this topic is the venerable Jane Nelsen. I have a great deal of information on her books in my resources section yet there is so [...]
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Chances are you’ve heard all about helicopter parenting. I come across that and cringe just because I’m a mom and a helicopter pilot and sometimes people wonder if my blog is about helicopter parenting. Ugh, quite the contrary. Helicopter parenting is in essence parents who hover over their children at all times, rarely giving the [...]
Last week I talked about the PNC Grow Up Great program and how it offers some great tips and tools to help our kids from birth to 5 prepare for a lifetime of learning. Today I’d like to talk about teaching conversation skills as recommended by PNC. But before I do, if you didn’t check [...]
If you read last week’s post, you know we’re climbing the walls here with the bad weather. This past week the snow left, but it has been pretty rainy on the days I’m home with the kids. We’ve built couch forts, played hallway bowling, designed elaborate ramp systems for Mr. Man’s car collection that breeds [...]
Weather the last week here in Seattle included snow, sleet, freezing rain, wind, ice, rain and slush. To say the kids are climbing the walls would be an understatement. I’m a big proponent of outside time every day, but with temperatures in the 20s and blowing freezing rain, outside was not something any of us [...]
Today I’m handing of the controls to Nancy Parker, a nanny and writer who wanted to offer some advice on finding a nanny who uses positive discipline. What she offers in just a beginning, but the points she makes are none the less important to keep in mind. Take it away Nancy. Finding the perfect [...]
I’ve invited Susan from Mariner 2 Mother to guest post a Mom Tip Monday today. Susan has a 7-year-old boy with sensory processing disorder and she’s taken a number of positive discipline courses focused on developing capable young people. Today she shares her experience with control and respect when it comes to working with a [...]