I stopped yelling at my kids last summer on July 24 after completely freaking out on Number 3 and 4 in the car on the way to a swim meet when I thought they had broken the DVD player. I made it for a whole 24 hours without yelling. Then I made it for a […]
yell-free parenting
Locked and Loaded
Last week I wrote this post about how I had made it 6 months without yelling at the kids. About how the kids still tried to push my buttons and get out of doing stuff around the house that they were supposed to do. And how I realized that I was not holding Number 3 accountable […]
Six months and still no yelling. Just a little tweaking.
I haven’t yelled at the kids since last summer. Since July 24, 2014, to be exact. It’s almost my six month anniversary. At this point, it’s become second nature, really. (You can read about how I got through the first few days, weeks, and months, here.) Yelling is no longer a reaction I need to […]
I’m quieter than ever, and I’ve never been more loud and clear.
I just had my three month anniversary. Three months of not yelling at my kids. (If you want to see how I made it through the first two and a half months, read this.) It’s still not totally automatic. In addition to Serenity Now, I have added the following mantra to my repertoire: There are days where […]
YOU call bullshit? Nope. Sorry. I call bullshit.
If you’ve been following the blog for more than 2 days, you know that I stopped yelling at my kids a couple months ago. And a post I wrote about that was published on Scary Mommy. And a whole bunch of ladies were pissed. More than one said, I call bullshit. They said if they didn’t […]
How I (Mostly) Stopped Yelling At My Kids
In July of 2014, I decided I was going to change the way I was parenting my kids and stop yelling. Or at least cut way back on it. It didn’t help to improve my kids’ behavior or attitudes, I was not leading by example, it created a more chaotic home, and I just felt […]