You peek into the kitchen around 5pm- Anywheresville, USA. Mom is trying to make dinner. Child #1 is asking Mom the same question over and over and over. Mom answers it patiently over and over and over. Child #2 starts helping their self to a snack. Opening the...
When your child is doing something that is driving you crazy and/or causing problems in your home- what is your first reaction? What is that knee jerk parenting reaction we all have. SHUT. IT. DOWN. Make it stop. Find a way to put an end to this problem behavior....
“Flexible parenting is about approaching parenting with an open mind and creativity. It is about taking a flexible, experimental approach to parenting- an approach of discovering what works for you and for your child.” (Whittingham & Coyne, 2019) It’s all about...
No means no. But other things can mean no also. Does your child have big reactions when you tell them no? Is the word no sometimes or often a trigger for your child leading to all kinds of problem behaviors? We have to tell our kids no. No- do not run into traffic....
I do it myself! Me do it! Myself! We hear these things with toddlers or when our kids are learning that new flex- independence. “Never do for a child what he can do for himself.” -Rudolf Dreikurs But what if we don’t have 300 hours to wait for our kids to dress...
Have you heard of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT (pronounced like the word act, not a.c.t.)? ACT is an intervention focused on psychological flexibility. It helps us to be accepting of the thoughts, feelings, and experiences in our worlds while committing...
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