What Do You Love About Your Child?
What Do You Love About Your Child? Are you on Instagram? What do you think about it? Connect with me on Instagram today and share what you love about your child. I've been spending more time on Instagram lately. Mostly I love to share stories about my grandkids, my...
Parenting Disagreements
Parenting Disagreements Between Spouses There are many reasons why parents disagree about parenting methods. Parenting disagreements between spouses happen every day. Sometimes it is easier to know what someone else should be doing differently than it is to take a...
When Spouses Disagree About Parenting
What to do When Spouses Disagree About Parenting By Deborah Godfrey When two people get married and decide to have children, they rarely talk about the specifics of how they plan to raise these children. When spouses disagree about parenting, most people have a “de...
An Alternative to Time-Out
An Alternative to Time-Out - Self-Quieting Time This is a story from a parent in my class that used our alternative to time-out called self-quieting or self calming. I have given you a link at the end to the lesson about this topic. I had a particularly calm morning...
Family Meetings
Family Meetings can be a very successful method of enhancing family cooperation and closeness. When you were a child, what did it mean if your parent said,"Time for a family meeting?" Probably someone was in trouble, right? Instead you want to set up family meetings...
Free Zoom Parenting Webinars during Safe at Home Quarantine
Free Zoom Parenting Webinars during Safe at Home Quarantine The pandemic has drastically altered my life, how about you? I am readjusting to a new routine and I'm offering you free daily Zoom parenting webinars (this link is to the Facebook page) during Safe at Home...
Discipline and Punishment are not the Same
8 Ways Discipline and Punishment are Not the Same Discipline is used to teach and guide children. Punishment is used for the purposes of controlling and retribution. Young children do not commit crimes. So their mistakes call for a corrective disciplinary...
6 Ways to Make Discipline Fun
Wouldn't it be great to make discipline fun? So often parenting becomes a chore. In order to be effective, we must spend a great deal of time training our children. And especially following through with consequences of their misbehavior. Use this Mistaken Goal Chart...