discipline
The One Sentence That Gets My Kids to Take Responsibility
I, like most other parents, tire of being sidelined by kids bringing their latest laundry list of sibling complaints. Their sentences are filled with the words: he, she, they, and what they did to ME!
Have You Spanked Your Child?
I do think that spanking is a tool in the discipline kit, and that separates me from many, many of you who view spanking as flat out abuse.
When Discipline Becomes Anger & Creates Fear
If you were seven, raised in an orphanage, adopted into a new country and trying to learn English, wouldn't you be frustrated and rebellious? The entire idea of trusting people is foreign to this boy, and then he enters a house where...well, I don't see a feeling of trust when I watch this video segment.
When to Intervene
Books often advise us against intervening, for example, when a child is having a tantrum or siblings are fighting. However, these “blanket rules” for interacting can easily mislead or confuse us.
Playdates Require Sensible Guidelines
We want to ensure that parents use sensible guidelines when allowing their child to visit someone else’s home. We share ideas about this subject because the notion of children needing to have playdates is relatively recent.
Children’s Perspectives on Spanking
It seems especially refreshing for children to live in a place and a time when children would assume a teacher would never physically punish them and feel safe to ask questions so openly.
5 Discipline Tricks for Babies
How to deal with biting, throwing, screaming, and other frustrating infant behavior.