We've all been there - stuck between a clock relentlessly moving toward an appointment and a kid oblivious to time passing. Whether it's being late to school, sports practice or a dentist appointment, kids moving slow when it's time to go is maddening! Here are some helpful phrases to keep kids on [...]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
The Day I Realized I Was Bullying My Kids
I was being a bully... I had just watched a video from Playful Learning called Power of Words with my kids, thinking it would be helpful for them, hopefully help us decrease sibling squabbles. I didn't realize I would get an emotional 2x4 to the head as I listened to the description of Put [...]Continue Reading
Is this why you’re yelling at your kids?
You think you're holding it together...you're trying to keep your cool, and then WHAM, all of a sudden you're yelling at your kids. Sometimes our anger seems to come out of nowhere - something completely normal for our kids to do pushes us to yelling when the day before we would have [...]Continue Reading
