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Connection Before Correction

September 10, 2017 by not your average mom 3 Comments

One of the biggest lessons I have learned as a Positive Discipline educator is that belonging and significance are the primary goals of children. One of the biggest lessons I have learned as a parent is that I am not connecting with my children as much as I would like to in order to create […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: belonging, choices, connection before correction, consequences, kids, positive discipline

I Am Not Watching The Eclipse With My Kids

August 20, 2017 by not your average mom 7 Comments

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past couple weeks, you know that there’s going to be an eclipse tomorrow (Monday, August  21, 2017) in North America. Here in CT, we will not achieve “totality.” The sun will be approximately 67% obscured at the height of the eclipse. I get that this is […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: consequences, directions, eclipse, glasses, kids, retinas, science, solar eclipse

I take care of my kids!

February 17, 2015 by not your average mom 23 Comments

Yesterday I wrote a post explaining how I didn’t let Number 3 go to a birthday party after he, for absolutely no reason, pushed his three-year-old sister who consequently fell into a wooden table and slammed her head onto the corner of it. I went on to explain how once I told him he wasn’t […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: Chris Rock, consequences, I take care of my kids

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