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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: Power, Parenting and Gentle Discipline

July 25, 2011

I’m taking a little break from regular posting right now, but I’d like to share this post from the archives. Thinking about the balance of power and respect in our relationships is so important, and there were lots of great comments and input from readers on this post last year.  Be sure to click through [...]

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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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Gentle Discipline for Toddlers: Biting, Hitting and Impulse Control

January 25, 2011

We’ve entered the toddler stage that many parents dread: biting and hitting. It’s definitely not a fun thing to deal with, but it’s really common. Biting and hitting in toddlers is due to two big things going on in their development: an increase in independence combined with a lack of impulse control. Toddlers now understand [...]

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Resource Review Thursday: Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child by John Gottman

December 9, 2010

In an age of widespread divorce and troubled kids, many parents want to make sure they raise emotionally healthy, connected children but don’t know how to do that. John Gottman, Ph.D. has synthesized the results of years of academic research and parenting to produce a guide to the emotional health and well-being of children, Raising An [...]

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Resource Review Thursday: Beyond Time Out

August 5, 2010

When I picked up Beyond Time Out [Sterling, 2008] from the library to read and review it, I had no idea what it was going to be about.  I certainly had no idea where it would lead me in exploring what it means to have healthy power in a parent/child relationship. As I wrote earlier, [...]

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Resource Review Thursday: Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves

July 29, 2010

It’s a moment every parent eventually faces: your sweet infant develops to the point where they are able to do something that drives you bananas, and as you shout, “Stop that!” you hear your own parent’s voice coming from your mouth. Parenting is difficult work, and most parents only have skills passed on to them [...]

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Power, Parenting and Gentle Discipline

July 18, 2010

I have recently started reading Beyond Time Out by Beth Grosshans, Ph.D.  From the very start of her book Grosshans is absolutely clear that she believes many (if not all) of children’s behavioural problems are related to an Imbalance of Family Power.  She says this is partly due to the emergence of parenting books and [...]

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Not All Kids Love Sticker Charts

June 29, 2010

It’s become one of the ubiquitous symbols of modern childhood: the sticker chart. Kids have reward charts at home, at school, at daycare and preschool and, as we discovered last week, at the public library.  When we staggered up to the checkout desk with our books, the librarian suggested that Beatrice sign up for the [...]

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5 Reasons to be Glad You’re Not a Perfect Parent

June 12, 2010

Many parents admit to wanting to be the best possible parent for their children, and this desire to be good parents fuels an entire industry of parenting books, gimmicks, products and programs designed to either teach parents how to interact with their children or control children so that parents feel like they’re doing their job [...]

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Ten Tips For Dining Out With Kids

May 25, 2010

Like everything else, eating out with small children just isn’t the same as eating out as a childless couple.  There are now small people along with you, with needs and preferences of their own, and part of your dining experience will be dedicated to helping them get their needs met in an unfamiliar place filled [...]

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Fixing up My Feed

May 21, 2010

After some confusion and emails from readers saying they couldn’t get my feed to work properly, I read Paige’s guest post on Lauren Wayne about why & how to set a blog up with a FeedBurner feed and I felt like the universe was sending me a message. That message was, “Fix up your feed [...]

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