by admin | Feb 28, 2010 | Discipline
Discipline Top Ten Tips for Effective Limit Setting What does “setting limits” really mean? A “limit” refers to a rule that establishes a specific behavior to be unacceptable. “No blowing bubbles in your milk” is an example of a limit. “Setting” a limit refers to a...
by admin | Jan 20, 2010 | General Information
“His greatest personal strengths are exactly those things that make it most difficult to be his parent,” mom of a challenging boy. Challenging boys have many great personal strengths. They are sensitive, empathic, energetic, driven, persistent, principled, and...
by admin | Nov 17, 2009 | Discipline
Discipline Sticker Charts/Reward Charts/Behavior Charts: The Five Most Common Mistakes Parents Make When Using Reward Charts Reward charts (also sometimes called “sticker charts” or “behavior charts”) are frequently employed by parents to deal with their young...
by admin | Oct 20, 2009 | General Information
General 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...
by admin | Oct 10, 2009 | School Problems
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...
