I have spent the past two days in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I came down here from CT to attend a program entitled Teaching Parenting the Positive Discipline Way. And it was awesome. And while I’m sitting here in the Fort Lauderdale airport waiting for my delayed plane, I thought I’d share some things I discovered in […]
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One Way To Effectively (And Less Painfully) Diffuse A Temper Tantrum
If you have a two, three, four, or five-year-old, then there is a good chance you have the pleasure of experiencing at least one full-blown, level 10, code red temper tantrum every single day. Our youngest is now five-years-old. I’d say the temper tantrums at this age are less frequent. But what they lack in […]
Why Your Kids Talk Back To You And What You Can Do To Change It
Last night someone asked me for my thoughts regarding kids and back talk. Ooooooh. Backtalk. I hate back talk. It’s annoying and frustrating and embarrassing, at times, infuriating. It’s infuriating at those times when our kids talk to us in a way that is completely rude and disrespectful and we KNOW we have taught them […]
Are your kids playing you?
I work Monday through Friday coaching the swim team from 4:30 to 8:30. So I’m not really around once all the kids are home from school to help out with homework, but I am 100% the default parent in that department. Number 3 and 4 get home from school around 3:00, so they know if they […]
Life Lessons From The Saxophone
A week or so ago I wrote a post about Number 4 and how she was feeling conflicted about continuing to play the saxophone in band in school. This was a tough call for me because 1) she’s talented, 2) she LOVED it last year and 3) I think, like many of us, she may […]
Let nature take its course.
Someone asked me about natural consequences yesterday. Natural consequences are unbelievably useful and effective in helping our kids (and ourselves!) learn valuable lessons about accountability and responsibility. But they are largely underutilized because we as parents so often have a hard time letting our kids be uncomfortable or deal with disappointment. First I think it’s important to make […]
