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Sometimes You Just Gotta Hug It Out.

February 5, 2019 by not your average mom 1 Comment

This morning we had one of those mornings that could have gone in a couple different directions. Up until a little over a year ago, we ate about 99.9% of our meals in the kitchen. The only time we ever ate in the dining room was when we celebrated a birthday or on Thanksgiving. It […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Parenting Tagged With: dining room, giving hugs, hugging it out, yelling

Do vs. Don’t

October 3, 2017 by not your average mom 4 Comments

Sometimes I get to the end of the day and I feel like all I’ve done is say no and don’t to the kids 5,000 times and tell them to stop doing stuff. The no’s and the don’ts are tiring and not fun — for me or for the kids — and they aren’t especially effective. […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Parenting Tagged With: do, don't, negative, positive discipline, stop, yelling

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

Mommy, I Need To Talk To You.

September 19, 2017 by not your average mom 2 Comments

A couple years ago after totally losing my shit on Number 3 and 4 in the car on the way to a swim meet, I made the decision to stop yelling at my kids. I did this because I felt like an out of control psycho when I yelled at them, because they laughed at […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: positive discipline, solutions, yelling

Why Are You Acting Unusual?

July 26, 2017 by not your average mom 2 Comments

The other day, the kids were a little bit out of control. We were coming off of a three day swim meet, they had been dragged back and forth to a pool that was almost an hour away all weekend, I had been gone for basically three days, and everyone was exhausted. So I took […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Parenting Tagged With: dinner, meals, positive discipline, screaming, unusual, yelling

Parenting Mistakes Are Awesome Parenting *Opportunities*

July 11, 2017 by not your average mom 4 Comments

You know when you lose your shit on your kids and then you are instantly filled with remorse and regret and wish you could rewind and just start all over again? I had one of those moments the other morning. I didn’t really lose my shit. But I was hard on Number 3. Too hard. […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Parenting Tagged With: behavior, mistakes, positive discipline, recovery from mistakes, responsibility, shame, yelling

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