Often in the world of gentle discipline we are implored to look at our child’s needs and wants when they are acting in a way that we don’t understand or want. However, I often think that just attributing a reason … Continue reading
Friends, I have been hearing from a lot of you recently via email and many of you are struggling with boundaries in your lives. I am not a counselor, and I am not a psychologist, but I wanted to tell … Continue reading
(I think this post has a very uniquely American message, so I apologize if it does not resonate with my international readers as much today.) Connection between the parent and the child is a huge help regarding discipline and boundaries … Continue reading
We have been talking quite a bit of late about power, authority and boundaries in parenting. Our book study of “Hold On To Your Kids: Why Parents Need To Matter More Than Peers” by Neufeld and Mate spurred the discussion, … Continue reading
One of the most pressing issues for the child of the traditional preschool age (ages 3 and onward) is learning to deal with boundaries. I find many attached parents, especially first-time attachment parents, are rather slow about using boundaries. It … Continue reading
I really like this quote by Gary Chapman, author of “The Five Love Languages” and “Love As A Way of Life”. He writes in the Foreward to Susie Larson’s wonderful book, “Growing Grateful Kids: Teaching Them to Appreciate An Extraordinary … Continue reading
Like so many of my posts, they just come to me in a spurt of doing something else and I am drawn to sit down and write. What came to me today is this notion of working on boundaries, and … Continue reading
My dear friend came over yesterday and while our children played we were just talking. She mentioned some of her experiences whilst tutoring children in German, her native language, and commented that some of the brightest, most academic, most verbal … Continue reading
My last post was written toward an audience of parents who are using spanking, hitting or yelling as their main disciplinary tools. Today we are going to tackle the opposite problem – that of a child with a parent who … Continue reading
This is a really important article about suicide and how we all can help in this epidemic: http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2013/05/22/why-suicide-has-become-and-epidemic-and-what-we-can-do-to-help.html . It really goes well with the book I am currently reading, “The Optimistic Child” by Martin E. Seligman. I hope … Continue reading
