by admin | Mar 18, 2011 | Discipline
Discipline How to get kids to cooperate: Think like a firefighter! If you are frustrated that your relationship with your child has too many struggles and too little cooperation, you are not alone. If you have looked to parenting books for help but have found the...
by admin | Feb 17, 2011 | General Information
From time to time, all parents encounter resistance or even tantrums when they say no to a treat, a purchase, or an activity that a child really wants. And even families with easy, compliant kids and serene, Zen-like parents have fights that occasionally escalate in...
by admin | Nov 7, 2010 | General Information
We weren’t raised this way.Although positive parenting ideas have been around for decades, most of our parents did not believe that respecting, understanding and empathizing with a child’s feelings lay at the heart of parenting; neither did they believe in...
by admin | Oct 22, 2010 | General Information
General Why the Good Advice in Parenting Books is Often so Hard to Follow, Part I By now you’ve probably read two, three, four or even more parenting books and you are reading this blog now because you are still searching for answers to the problems that you are...
by admin | Apr 8, 2010 | Book Reviews
In 1-2-3 Magic, Thomas Phelan outlines his deceptively simple approach to discipline. Any time that a child is engaged in a disapproved of activity, the parent gives two warnings followed by a time out. The first warning is indicated by the parent saying “that’s one.”...
