Bounceback Parneting's Grateful Family Pack has activities and conversation/journal prompts designed to support teaching all four parts of gratitude. You can find out more and purchase your own Grateful Family Pack here. More than saying an automatic 'thank you', gratitude is a character [...]Continue Reading
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Three Exercises for Overcoming the Negative Thought Patterns that Trigger Anger
Today we welcome Rebecca Eanes, author and positive parenting educator, who has a new workbook she's just released that gives you practical exercises to become the positive parent you'd like to be. The following excerpt comes from her new workbook and teaches about changing negative thought [...]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
Top Parenting Books for Positive Parenting
These are the top books for learning about positive parenting. When we decide to look for new parenting tools one of the first things most of us think about is finding a good book to read. Some books below I have only read in part, some all the way through. I tend to be a "gleaner" of parenting [...]Continue Reading
The No Rescue Policy: Why it’s Time
Have a totally forgetful kid? This post is for you. Today we welcome back Amy McCready, positive parenting author and educator. I refer to Amy's book, The Me, Me, Me Epidemic in my post on how I'm dealing with entitlement in my family, and she's written this as a follow up for us on a positive [...]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 of Abundant Mama, and what she wrote included a number of tools for [...]Continue Reading
