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Parenting the Shy Child

by Deborah Godfrey | Sep 19, 2013 | Communication, Positive Parenting, Self Esteem, Success Stories

Sometimes my daughter Briana could be quite shy and timid when she was young. In this video I describe one of the ways I taught her to be more confident. I can say that now she is 28, she turned out to be quite confident! No longer a shy child, she got a BFA in...

Spitting out gum on lid of trashcan

by Deborah Godfrey | Last updated Sep 19, 2013 | Positive Parenting

This is a video about what I did when my son spitting out gum out on the lid of the trashcan. This is a tool for avoiding power struggles. Please click on the links below to share it with your friends, thank you! Happy Parenting! Deb

Chores and Allowance

by Deborah Godfrey | Last updated Sep 19, 2013 | Communication, Family Team, Positive Parenting

Chores and Allowances - A Unique Approach Often parents used a child's allowance as punishment when chores aren't done. This is a messy way to discipline when the child decides they don't care about the money anymore, you have no way to motivate that child to to...

Taking The Hassles out of Homework on MP3

by Deborah Godfrey | Last updated Sep 3, 2013 | Alternatives to Spanking, Communication, Family Team, Positive Parenting

This is an audio recording of a live workshop. Buy this workshop now. You will be given the link immediately to get answers to your homework hassles. The entire workshop is 3 tracks for a total of 84 minutes. There is one handout included with this workshop. Track...

How is Your Parenting Authority?

by Deborah Godfrey | Last updated Aug 31, 2013 | Communication, Family Team, Self Esteem, Setting Limits

How is Your Parenting Authority? By Deborah Godfrey Parental authority is probably the most important yet least understood quality for effective parenting. Many parents attempt to increase their parental authority with tools that actually result in undermining their...

Mom Build’s Self-Esteem

by Deborah Godfrey | Last updated Aug 30, 2013 | Self Esteem, Success Stories

Mom Build's Self-Esteem Mom usually had a rule about the computer. If the kids wanted to play their games, they could do that on their own. She stayed out of it. Mom got her homework assignment after Week 2 of the parenting class. She was to have her children teach...

Terrible Twos Advice – What’s So Terrible About Being Two?

by Deborah Godfrey | Last updated Aug 30, 2013 | Self Esteem, Setting Limits

Terrible Twos Advice - What’s So Terrible About Being Two? By Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW So what’s up when a kid reaches age two? Many parents are ready to pull their hair out when their kids reach this age… and it continues for about a year to a year and a half. Maybe...

Child’s Reminder Prevents Bedtime Battles

by Deborah Godfrey | Last updated Aug 23, 2013 | Family Team, Positive Parenting, Power Struggles, Setting Limits, Success Stories

Bedtime Battles Success Newlywed's Tim & Jan brought 5 year old Josh to class the first night, not realizing it was for parents only. He was pretty good the first 2 hours, but 3 hours is a long time! They had been having many power struggles and bedtime battles...

Visualize the Positive Behaviors

by Deborah Godfrey | Last updated Aug 18, 2013 | Family Team

Visualize the Positive Behaviors by Deborah Godfrey What would it be like if our family were perfect? Not the sort of perfect that doesn't allow mistakes, conflicts or individual differences, but the sort of perfect as in, ""Life is good, we have great kids and we're...

3 Ideas to See the Positive Intention

by Deborah Godfrey | Last updated Aug 18, 2013 | Annoying Behavior, Communication

3 Ideas to See the Positive Intention Now you have Visualized the Positive Behaviors, what can you do when "real life" shows up? So often as parents we see the behavior of our children as negative or bad. We think that they are "out to get us", "make our lives...

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