Teach these two activities to kids and give them essential tools for self regulation and emotional control. This post contains Amazon affiliate links - if you purchase through I receive compensation at no extra cost to yourself. October is Emotional Intelligence Awareness Month and Bounceback [...]Continue Reading
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How to Stay Calm and Get Your Child to Stop Yelling at You
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
Top 10 Posts of 2016 – anger calming skills, gifts for dads, books we love and more
word cloud of top 2016 posts Whether we were learning to calm down or trying to figure out how to get parenting back on track, one theme that remained constant this year was a desire for simplicity. We have so many resources out there, but how can we make sense of them when our days are often [...]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
One thing to change when it feels like everything is falling apart
Sometimes I have weeks when it feels like I've forgotten how to do this whole parenting thing completely - I start thinking Nothing works! I don't know how to do this! I have to change everything! But thankfully when I catch myself thinking that way I now realize what it's actually telling me, and [...]Continue Reading
