When Spouses Disagree About Parenting
What to do When Spouses Disagree About Parenting By Deborah Godfrey When two people get married and decide to have children, they rarely talk about the specifics of how they plan to raise these children. When spouses disagree about parenting, most people have a “de...
An Alternative to Time-Out
An Alternative to Time-Out - Self-Quieting Time This is a story from a parent in my class that used our alternative to time-out called self-quieting or self calming. I have given you a link at the end to the lesson about this topic. I had a particularly calm morning...
Family Meetings
Family Meetings can be a very successful method of enhancing family cooperation and closeness. When you were a child, what did it mean if your parent said,"Time for a family meeting?" Probably someone was in trouble, right? Instead you want to set up family meetings...
Free Zoom Parenting Webinars during Safe at Home Quarantine
Free Zoom Parenting Webinars during Safe at Home Quarantine The pandemic has drastically altered my life, how about you? I am readjusting to a new routine and I'm offering you free daily Zoom parenting webinars (this link is to the Facebook page) during Safe at Home...
Discipline and Punishment are not the Same
8 Ways Discipline and Punishment are Not the Same Discipline is used to teach and guide children. Punishment is used for the purposes of controlling and retribution. Young children do not commit crimes. So their mistakes call for a corrective disciplinary...
6 Ways to Make Discipline Fun
Wouldn't it be great to make discipline fun? So often parenting becomes a chore. In order to be effective, we must spend a great deal of time training our children. And especially following through with consequences of their misbehavior. Use this Mistaken Goal Chart...
Redirecting – A Parent’s Alternative
Redirecting is a parent's alternative to punishment. Parents have a variety of choices regarding their parenting style. Are you a strict, disciplinarian? Do you expect children to do as you say, not as you do? Or are you permissive, letting the child do as he or she...
Parenting Inspiration: No More Mc Parenting
No More McParenting Parenting Inspiration - In parenting, with our busy lives, we often look to short term, easy answers for everything. We have fast food, computers, the latest gadget or gizmo to save us time, money or stress. Many of these ideas are great and do...