I had my second Positive Discipline class last week. If you still roll your eyes or throw up in your mouth a little bit whenever you see those two words, then I am sure you don’t really understand the philosophy. PLEASE DON’T STOP READING. This sh*t works! I swear to you! And I have a […]
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Do You Feel Like You Are Trying To Empty The Ocean With A Spoon?
I don’t know if you’ve heard that Coldplay song Up and Up, but one of the lines in it says: lying in the gutter, aiming for the moon trying to empty out the ocean with a spoon I have probably listened to this song a thousand times. It helped me get through this summer. I […]
The Wheel of Choice
Yesterday my kids were totally sucky and pushing my every button and beating the crap out of each other and I went off on them in the car and told them that things were going to change. For all of us. They were on their best behavior until about noon today, and then things started […]
The one in, one out rule doesn’t just apply to your house.
IF YOU ARE IN A CLOTHING RUT AND WANT A SUPER CUTE CAPSULE WARDROBE WHERE ALL THE THINKING IS DONE FOR YOU, CLICK BELOW. I DID, AND IT’S DEFINITELY THE BEST THING I DID FOR MYSELF IN 2015! If you read last night’s post, you know that yesterday was not my best day in the parenting […]
A Time-Out Mindset Shift
Changing the way you parent or look at commonly utilized parenting methods is difficult. Paradigm shifts make many of us uncomfortable and that discomfort often causes us to automatically respond with disbelief and opposition. We can also come up with many justifications for why any new idea won’t work for us. We are too busy. Our kids […]
I’m positive. Sort of.
I’m still on the positive parenting bandwagon. I gotta tell you. It’s hard. It’s hard because being conscious of everything that comes out of my mouth is tiring. It’s also hard because being mindful of everything I say has shown me that I say shit sometimes and I don’t even realize it. A couple weeks ago […]