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Gentle Discipline

The Parenting Primer Print Edition

March 25, 2013

  It’s here! The print edition of The Parenting Primer is finally ready to make its way through the postal system to anyone who wants to learn the nuts and bolts behind positive parenting in the first six years. The Parenting Primer will help you understand the dynamics behind the ying/yang of love and limits [...]

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The Halloween Candy Update

November 15, 2012

So, you might be wondering how our Halloween candy experiment turned out in the end. It was all looking pretty good on day one – there were lots of candies consumed and pretty much zero deviation from normal behaviour. Was it too good to be true? Yes and no. The candy experiment turned out differently [...]

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Politics and Gentle Discipline

November 10, 2012

I never used to follow politics. Honestly, up until four years ago I couldn’t tell you the difference between a Republican and a Democrat, or between a Conservative and an NDP. But now, well, now I can see that the world we are creating today is the world our kids will inherit ten or twenty [...]

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When you don’t know what to say or do, choose empathy

May 24, 2012

I was at the park yesterday, at the end of a long day.  My kids both dashed off immediately to play, and I sat at the edge of the playground just checking my phone and zoning out a little.  Out of the corner of my eye I saw a little boy head across the park [...]

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Gentle Discipline for Preschoolers

May 10, 2012

Last week I wrote about what preschoolers are like, and I described some changes that kids will show as they grow from toddlers into preschoolers.  The preschool years can be very challenging, especially if you decided to take a less punitive or more attachment-based approach to parenting when your child was a newborn.  Toddlers and [...]

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Gentle Parenting: When the biggest achievement looks like nothing at all

February 13, 2012

In our house we have a little ritual: every night at dinner, we go around the table and ask each person what the best part of their day was.  Sometimes it’s a big outing, other times it’s something out of the ordinary we saw, or a visit with a special person.  Making progress on projects, [...]

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7 Tips for Maintaining Gentle Discipline While Traveling

August 16, 2011

Maintaining a positive attitude and attachment between yourself and a young child can be challenging, but adding travel to the mix can spell disaster for even the most experienced and dedicated parents. Dionna at Code Name: Mama recently wrote about her challenges with gentle discipline with her son on a recent trip away from home. [...]

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Repost: 10 Tips for Dining Out With Kids

July 19, 2011

I’m taking a little holiday from regular posting right now, but I wanted to share this post from the archives.  Eating out with kids is always a challenge, and it might look like this (as illustrated with crappy pictures!), but being prepared can’t hurt. Like everything else, eating out with small children just isn’t the [...]

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Decision Making as a Parent

June 14, 2011

Parents make choices for and about their children, every day, all day long.  Perhaps some of these decisions are delegated to daycare staff, nannies or babysitters, but the parents make choices when hiring people to care for their kids, and those choices are reflected in the type of person that is hired.  And in this [...]

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Parenting to Change the World

May 30, 2011

For those of us raised in the “you can do anything you want to” era, growing up and realizing that I was not, in fact, changing the world in any significant way was a bit of a shock.  I wanted to do work that was interesting, rewarding, socially positive and helping to save the environment. [...]

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Playful Self-Discipline: Communicating With Eye Contact

May 12, 2011

It’s Thursday and time to check in on my Playful Self-Discipline Project! This month’s theme is Communication. I’m focusing on listening without interfering, speaking clearly and using eye contact to maintain a connection between myself and the person I’m communicating with. When I decided to focus on my communication skills this month I started paying [...]

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Does Attachment Parenting Mean Permissive Parenting?

April 27, 2011

One of the most common criticisms of attachment parenting and gentle discipline is that it’s too easily interpreted as passive, permissive parenting. Sometimes parenting might seem permissive because a parent’s behaviour is not always what it seems on the surface. That mom standing a long way away from her toddler on the slide might be [...]

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Useful Phrases for Gentle Discipline

April 19, 2011

  In the thick of daily parenting, making the shift from traditional or punitive parenting to gentle discipline means stocking your parental tool kit with some new tools.  Learning how to parent with gentle discipline is sort of like traveling to a new country; it can be helpful to have a phrasebook handy to refer [...]

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