Does hearing your child whine annoy you or stress you out? Is it the pitch or the intensity or the timing of the whine that just makes you want to have a magic switch to turn it off? Rest assured, you are not alone in these feelings. With a two...
Many parents use sticker charts in the name of positive discipline. Sticker charts are a popular form of non-punitive discipline, and they do work…to a point. They do allow parents to teach children behaviors like doing chores or exemplifying...
You imagine they will be best friends, playing together, walking hand-in-hand, but then reality strikes, and you find yourself being the referee. Here are some ideas to restore the peace in your home. Minimizing RivalryOccasional spats will...
I’m excited to kick off this Positive Parenting in Action series, where I will attempt to address the most common behavior questions we get on PPTB and show just what Positive Parenting looks like in action in regard to these behaviors. In...
In The Discipline Book, Dr. William Sears addresses something that is very important in managing parents’ stress levels: biggies and smallies. Below is an excerpt from the book: Divide your children’s...
We have our calm down box at home, but sometimes (okay, fairly often) my kids get upset when we’re out. So, today I made a trip to the dollar store and bought a small jar, balloons, and Play Doh. I made a small I Spy jar, which is the...
There is certainly no shortage of articles telling us all what not to do as parents, yet few offer concrete advice on what we should do. As a parent, I know how frustrating it can be to have all of your tools yanked away because they’re all...
I saw this great idea on Here We Are Together and knew it would be perfect for our home. I don’t do the traditional time-outs with my kids because they push away rather than bring closer, and connection and relationship are at the heart of...
We had an interesting discussion on PPTB today under a post about non-punitive discipline, and I’m hoping to clear up some of the confusion about enforcing limits versus doling out punishments or made-up consequences. Let me preface this...
In Part 1, we discussed why the traditional paradigm of parenting is faulty and why non-punitive positive parenting is healthier for children and family dynamics. In this post, we’ll look at how to handle common situations using...
Our goal as a parent is to give life to our children’s learning—to instruct, to teach, to help them develop self-discipline—an ordering of the self from the inside, not imposition from the outside. Any technique that does not give life to a...
This is a guest post by Kelly Bartlett. ************************************************************************************ “Children don’t misbehave, they simply behave to get their needs met.” This quote comes from Dr. Thomas...
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