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Cultivating Positive Parenting
Carl Rogers was one of the most important psychologists of the twentieth century and his work, along with that of Abraham Maslow, formed the basis for the creation of today’s Positive Psychology movement. In 1957, Rogers described what he believed were the necessary...
The Power of Positive Parenting: Gottman’s Magic Ratio
The Power of Positive Parenting: Gottman's Magic RatioMarriage and family researcher, John Gottman, has observed that spouses in happy, stable marriages engage in positive expressions of feelings and actions towards each other about five times as often as they engage...
Review of The Explosive Child, by Ross Greene
Review of The Explosive Child, by Ross Greene Ross Greene’s book, The Explosive Child, is one of my three all time favorite parenting books (click this link to see my three must read parenting books). In this book, Dr. Greene argues that conventional parenting...
Stop Blaming Yourself: Work the Problem People!
Stop Blaming Yourself: Work the Problem People!As if raising a challenging boy wasn’t stressful, exhausting and difficult enough, parents of challenging boys also have to contend with the advice, judgment and blame of friends, relatives, and strangers at the...
The Parent Diary: A Powerful Tool for Decreasing Power Struggles
It is the nature of power struggles (or of just about any other challenging interaction that we get into with our children) that we find ourselves time and time again caught up in them by surprise. In spite of our best intentions to keep calm, not yell, and avoid the...
10 Best Parenting Books for Parents of Challenging Boys
Three Books Every Parent Of A Challenging Child Should Read These are some of my absolute favorite books on parenting of all time. Each one is well worth the read (and the first one doesn’t even require reading because it's an audiobook!). 1. How to Talk So Kids Will...
Oppositional, Rebellious, Difficult, Defiant, Explosive, Spirited, Challenging ... What's in a Name? Who are Challenging Boys? They are kids who get tagged with many negative labels: oppositional, difficult, defiant, manipulative, willful, noncompliant, rigid,...