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What Your Kid Is Thinking When You Are Yelling

September 28, 2017 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

Yesterday I was talking to Number 3, and somehow we ended up on the topic of coaches. And this led to a discussion about different coaching styles. Number 3 told me who his best coaches were. And he said, “They actually show you what to do. And when you do something right, they tell you.” […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Parenting Tagged With: defiance, Number 3, reinforcing, tuning out, yelling

Have You Become A “No Monster”?

April 20, 2017 by not your average mom 6 Comments

How many times do you think you say NO to your kids every day? Five times? Twenty times? A hundred times? I bet if I kept track, it would be in the triple digits. Easily. Sometimes I say no to them before they can even finish a complete sentence. I’ve been thinking about this a lot. […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Parenting Tagged With: children, defiance, kids, no, positive discipline, power struggles, question, yes

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