When young and old babies cry it can trigger or activate our own emotional learning experiences from childhood. We feel a deep desire to know what is causing them distress and how to help. Children cry for lots of reasons, but some are particular to their stage of learning at a certain point. Here
Note: The limits expressed in this blog post represent the feelings of the author and may be different from the limits in your family. Whatever the limit may need to be, how it is set, and how you handle the way your child feels about that limit are the important thing to focus on. You
A policy that helps children share The policy I like best about helping children share disputed items is that the child who has the item gets to keep it until they are done. Meanwhile, the parent “helps the other child wait” by making sure they are gently stopped if they try to grab the desired
Understanding a child’s brain function really helped me to stay calm as I was sure it would just take a few minutes and she will be OK and back on track again.
How Can I Handle My Child’s Aggressive Behaviors? None of the suggestions in this video with Patty Wipfler include controlling, forcing, or punishing your child. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. Watch the video below and you’ll finally have that road map you always wanted for calmer parenting – even in intense moments. The
If you’ve ever thought to yourself “life would be so much easier if I could get my child to just listen,” this is the call for you. In this free replay, Kathy Gordon addresses ways to fix the same frustrating behavior you see over and over again. She shares tools you can implement right away
For my daughter, getting her hair washed has been an emotional project. She usually has a tantrum at the mere suggestion that hair washing might be on the agenda.
Hitting, it’s the worst! Especially to see your own children hit one another. My girls use to get physical the moment there was any sort of kafuffle. The Old Me would threaten, “You hit your sister again and you won’t be able to go to the park later!” It worked in the very short term, but they always seemed to resort to hitting again.
I had often heard that Special Time can be used by our children as a way to explore things that are normally off limits with our approval, and I experienced this recently with my four-year-old son. He had been “experimenting” with the soap in the bathroom for a while. By this I mean he was
I could let my son continue to show me his impulse to interfere with his sister and I didn’t have to yell at him or tell him he was a “bad” kid. I knew there was nothing wrong with my son just because he wasn’t feeling connected and his impulse control was impaired. He needed connection first, before he could have good impulse control.
By Rachel Schofield “Mine!” screeches my 2-year-old and I turn round to find him holding on tight to a Tonka truck. His 7-year-old brother has the other end and is pouting back, “No it’s not.” Undeterred my youngest tightens his grip and roars loudly. Then they are screaming in each other’s faces, tussling over the
It was nearly bedtime and we were playing a family card game. My 3 year old was tired and his behavior was flaring. Everything was wrong for him. “I don’t want that card…I don’t want to sit next to Mama…I want it to be my turn”, he whined. He was finding it hard to sit
Is your toddler too angry to sleep? Read on to learn how to read the signs and get a solution. By Lyra L’Estrange Does it ever seem like your toddler is just unsettled? Can’t be happy? Can’t be playful? And definitely can’t sleep? Are there days where this carries on into the night, and your toddler
Q: My son is a very dynamic four-year-old. He is attached to me and has a younger two year-old brother. What I’ve noticed is that when we are doing Staylistening, he will sometimes rapidly control his emotions and improve his overall emotional state in such a way that he’s able to go back to normal
Part 3 in Kristen Volk’s series on Playful Ways to Get Teeth Brushed. End the power struggles and have some fun getting the routine going.
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Struggling with brushing teeth? In this 3 part Video series, Kristen explains how to set a limit playfully. Connection and laughter can help your child want to cooperate. Watch as Kristen gives examples of turning a power struggle into fun! Continued in Part 2
Making it possible for your child to want to cooperate can actually be fun. Watch as Kristen gives two examples of setting a limit playfully in order to diffuse the power struggle. Continued in Part 3