Should Siblings Share Play Dates?
Should kids have individual or inclusive play dates? I will help you decide what’s best for your family based on values and logistics and how to implement it.
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In this blog, you will find answers to common parenting questions and step-by-step instructions on how to implement successfully positive discipline that work. Our goal is to build strong relationships with our children while teaching them valuable social and life skills. When we raise our children with kind and firm discipline, they develop a sense of significance and belonging and become successful contributors to their own lives and the world.
Talking About Our Experiences
Being a parent is the most vulnerable and humbling circumstance. Talking about our experiences normalizes our experiences, builds community, and makes us better parents.
Dispel Negative Thoughts
Negative thoughts make us believe that everything about our life is bad. We can get rid of them with a visual exercise of love and gratitude to bring back balance.
Threats Don’t Work Long-Term
Do you cringe when you hear yourself in your kids’ words? Threats don’t work long-term. They only erode our relationships. My kids had an amusing interaction which made me think.
Help Kids Build Self-Awareness
Self-awareness helps us recognize the sensations and feelings in our bodies, how thoughts affect us, how our actions align with our intentions, and how we show up in the world.
Unexpected Ways to Build Connection
We try to build connection with our children, but we don’t always take advantage of the little, sometimes awkward, invitations they send us. Connection can look different than we expect.
Teaching Kids How to Apologize With Empathy
By teaching children to apologize with empathy, we help them understand the consequences of their actions and learn how to repair their mistakes.
Curiosity Questions Prevent Conflict
Instead of rushing to conclusions and having reactions that lead to conflict, we can ask curiosity questions to learn more and problem-solve together with our children.
The Inevitable Halloween Meltdown
Do you look at other parents and imagine they’ve got it all figured out? Or do you imagine that kids of parent coaches never have a meltdown? And that these…
Problem-Solve With Curiosity
Here’s how I use curiosity to help my kids problem-solve. Something bad happened at school. And they wondered what they would do if this happened to them. Should they call the other kid “stupid”?
10 Solutions to Dinnertime Power Struggles
When dinner is ready and your child begins whining, stalling, or ignoring you, it can be frustrating. Here are 10 solutions to avoid dinnertime power struggles.
When We Get Angry, Our Kids Feel Unloved
I always wonder what goes on in my kids’ heads and hearts. And I found out that when we get angry at them, they feel rejected and unloved. There is a way to fix that.