"“No” is a power-packed word, quick on the lips, easy to say. Your child will hear you use this word often, and you will hear it from your child as well.
Practice Positive Discipline
Positive discipline helps a child develop a conscience guided by his own internal discipline and compassion for others. Discipline that is empathetic, loving, and respectful strengthens the connection between parent and child. Rather than reacting to behavior, discover the needs leading to the behavior. Communicate and craft solutions together while keeping everyone's dignity intact.
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Many parents need help fostering their children’s healthy conscience development, especially when their own inner guides are overly punitive or overly permissive. |
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I recently came across a social media post that opened with the following phrase: "Have to laugh at people who are against spanking." The post stated that spanking leads to a child learning respect and boundaries with the absence of any trust issu Read more |
April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month, when organizations across the country come together to raise awareness about child abuse. |
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We are ending our discussion in API Reads (API's online book club) of the book "Parenting Without Power Struggles" by Susan Stiffelman this August. It is a very insightful book to help you in your journey of positive discipline. |
We are finishing up reading the book titled Read more |
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I will admit it. I'm a bit of a control freak. Actually, I need a lot of control, because I am a "Type-A," "Judgement," "Gold color" or whatever those personality tests use to describe me. |
No matter how gently we tell a child not to hurt another, he cannot hear us. He can only hear that he is "not all right" with us and therefore not worthy of love. |
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Authoritarian parenting can lead to depression and somatization in young Mexican American and Dominican American children, according to new research from The University of Texas at Austin’s School of Social Work. |
The importance of a secure parent-child attachment is not a new revelation: This is what sets the foundation for all future relationships a child will have in his or her life. But there is also something to be said for security between siblings. Read more |
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