How can you deal with an aggressive toddler in an emotionally healthy way?Few behaviors bring up so much emotion and potential confusion as aggression in our kids.We want to keep our cool, but often inside, alarms bells are ringing, flinging us into an unhelpful emotional state [...]Continue Reading
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What to do when your kid hits another child – How to teach the skill of self-motivated self-regulation (SMSR)
Today's article is about how to handle situations where one kid is hitting another. Author Vivek Patel shares how to handle this situation from a self-motivated, self-regulation standpoint rather than from a a fear-based self-regulation standpoint.How to teach the skill of self-motivated [...]Continue Reading
If behavior is communication – what do I do about it?
One of the most powerful shifts I made as a parent was when I started really focusing on behavior as communication, rather than simply reacting to the behavior in front of me as if it were a direct assault on my nerves. When one of my kids is really out of sorts, it acts as a beacon to me and I ask [...]Continue Reading
Screen Time for Kids – how to make house rules for electronics that work for your family
When I mentioned the big improvement in our family since revamping screen time rules for my kids, I got lots of readers telling me that they too struggle with media and screen time. What works as house rules for electronics in one family may not work in another, so I've created this post as a [...]Continue Reading
Done with the Power Struggles of Time Out
I am furious. I am standing at the kids bedroom door locked in a physical struggle to hold the door closed while my mind is struggling to keep me from slamming the door open into the shrieking child behind it. Thankfully the final shred of my mothering sanity wins and I jerk myself away from the [...]Continue Reading
Books for Parenting Under Pressure
Positive Parenting Book RecommendationsYou are surrounded by gasoline jug and you are staring at a digital display which reads 1.5 minutes until detonation. Desperately you are attempting to clip three unlabeled wires in the correct order to interrupt detonation....This past week has felt [...]Continue Reading
