Last night I ran a mini Positive Discipline workshop for the local moms club. And one of the first things I did was ask the moms to make a list of their biggest parenting challenges. You know, real button-pushing behaviors. 90% of the moms in attendance had kids who were 4 years old or younger. […]
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If it isn’t my kid, it’s gonna be someone else’s.
About a week ago, I received a message from a woman I have never met. She informed me that although Number 4 had actually spoken to her daughter, she had told a couple of her daughter’s friends that Santa Claus wasn’t real, and then she continued with, “I was hoping maybe you could ask her […]
If My Kid Is Being An Asshole, I Want You To Tell Me
In the past couple weeks I have found myself in a few different awkward positions where I haven’t quite known what the right thing to do is. In one situation, one of my kids got hurt by a friend’s kid. Like struck in the head with a rock. Should I say something? It was an accident. I knew […]
If at first you don’t succeed…
So I did it again. Yesterday I started a sentence with “When I was a kid…” This getting older crap sucks. Anyway. When I was a kid, you had some respect for the teacher. About 10 years ago when I taught 4th grade I had a student who was pretty much doing nothing in school. […]
Liar, liar, pants on fire.
Somewhere between the ages of 2 and 3 your kid discovers the concept of lying. You know, like this kid. If you don’t know who he is, his mom put a video of him trying to lie his way out of eating a bunch of sprinkles on YouTube. He’s become a viral sensation. And he’s reached that wonderful […]