Are you using Time-Outs with your children as a discipline strategy? Are you feeling frustrated that it doesn’t seem to be working? Are you using it over and over again for the same behaviours? Or maybe it’s just that it’s become a huge struggle to get your child to sit, or go, or stay in…
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Disciplining Kids: Why Rewards Don’t Work!
Welcome to the third week of our Positive Parenting alphabetic blogging series! Today’s topic is D is for Discipline. It’s a very complex issue and one that can’t be addressed within the space of just one post. As such, I’ve decided to split this topic up over 4 separate weeks. Today, we will look at why…
FREE Parent-Child Connection Coupons
After writing about the importance of deeply connecting with our kids last week (read that post here), I got thinking about how I could spend more time doing just that with my 3 year old son, Onetime. I decided to create a visual menu of fun ways to connect that I can use on a…
5 Easy Ways to Connect With Kids
Welcome to the third week of our Positive Parenting blogging series! Today’s topic is Connection. It is probably one of the most important components of effective positive parenting – and sometimes can be one of the most difficult to do when time is crunched and moms and dads are tired. We will look at 5…
5 Parenting Beliefs That Cause GRIEF
Welcome to the second post in the Positive Parenting blogging series. Today’s topic is parenting beliefs. Whether you’re the kind of person who is highly aware of the thoughts that are constantly running through your head, or the happily oblivious type (I wish that were me!), if you’re stressing out about parenting, it’s likely that one of…