As I mentioned before, loud noise is definitely one of my anger triggers.My kids know this anger trigger well, and inadvertently I taught them that yelling, or complaining really loudly for a long time is a great way to hit my buttons.Since I had few tools in the past to handle yelling, [...]Continue Reading
Gifts of a Bike Crash – Healing the Scrapes on your Soul
This week I had an experience that gave me a physical reminder about how important it is to care for myself if I want to be a connected, positive parent.I took a fall on my bike and managed to very badly scrape my forearm. It was gross. I won't go into it more, but it's the kind of wound that [...]Continue Reading
Anxious Kiddo? Get Back Calm With These Basic Questions
Do your kids ever get into an anxious, fragile state? Ready to meltdown at anything?Over the years I've found that some times my son's temper is much more even keeled than others, and the good news is that at this point I have a better handle on what to do when I see us heading into a more [...]Continue Reading
Meditation on Breathing – for those in distress
Each week I send Bounceback Parenting Learning Lounge members a check-in email. It's both a message with a bit of learning that I've gained recently, and a reminder to members to reflect and think back on the week, integrating lessons learned. I decided this week's check-in was one I wanted to share [...]Continue Reading
9 Tips for Parenting an Explosive Kid
When I published Parenting an Angry Child, I received an overwhelming response. Parents want to talk about this and I want to continue the conversation.One of the comments on that post was from a fellow blogger Shawn Fink who wrote Abundant Mama, and what she wrote included a number of tools [...]Continue Reading
Learning Your Anger Signals – First steps in managing anger
Want to get a handle on angry outbursts? One of the hardest parts of dealing with anger is building up the ability to pause before we react to a situation. Many people have told me they read lots of great advice on parenting, but they can't apply it in the moment. They don't know how to pause before [...]Continue Reading