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Controlling My Madness — Your Kids Are More Self Aware Than You May Realize

January 14, 2018 by not your average mom 2 Comments

Number 6 is my mama’s boy. He’s cuddly and snuggly, he still gives me a kiss and a hug wherever I happen to be saying goodbye to him, even at school in front of his friends. He’s an emotional kid. So along with those good, cuddly emotions, come the opposite ones. When he gets upset, […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Parenting Tagged With: anger, behavior, emotions in children, madness, positive discipline, strategies, wheel of choice

Parenting Mistakes Are Awesome Parenting *Opportunities*

July 11, 2017 by not your average mom 4 Comments

You know when you lose your shit on your kids and then you are instantly filled with remorse and regret and wish you could rewind and just start all over again? I had one of those moments the other morning. I didn’t really lose my shit. But I was hard on Number 3. Too hard. […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Parenting Tagged With: behavior, mistakes, positive discipline, recovery from mistakes, responsibility, shame, yelling

It’s Not About Consequences. It’s About Finding Solutions

May 2, 2017 by not your average mom 6 Comments

A couple weeks ago I got an email from Number 6’s teacher. It wasn’t one of those I just wanted to tell you this story about how awesome your kid is emails. It was one of those Your kid is being a pain in the ass and I’m starting to lose my shit emails. Ugh. […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: behavior, behavior incentives, carrot, consquences, Number 5, positive discipline, punishment, rewards and punishments, solutions

What I Learned Over Spring Break

April 18, 2017 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

Last week was our spring break. It was the first spring break in about five years that we haven’t had major money problems. Where we weren’t in danger of losing our house, where the Man from CL&P wasn’t coming to knock on our door on an almost monthly basis, where we weren’t on food stamps, […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: behavior, facebook, fast, kids, Number 7, present, quality, spring break, time

Just The Tip Of The Iceberg

February 21, 2017 by not your average mom 1 Comment

If you know anything about an iceberg, then you know the part that you see above the water is just a small fraction of it. The majority of the iceberg is underwater. Hence the saying, the tip of the iceberg. This is especially true with your kids. If they are demonstrating a certain behavior that […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Parenting Tagged With: behavior, challenge, fires, goals, iceberg, jane nelson, mistaken beliefs, positive discipline, tool cards

What Behaviors Challenge You Most?

February 10, 2017 by not your average mom 7 Comments

Yesterday we got over fifteen inches of snow here in CT. All the kids were home from school. Number 5 was still recovering from (f*cking) Norovirus, and I never even got out of my pajamas. By 7 pm last night, this is what things looked like. I was reduced to letting Number 5 style my […]

Filed Under: Life at My House, Parenting, Your Daily Dose Tagged With: behavior, challenges, characteristics, positive discipline

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