17 Kind Ways To Say No To Your Child
Monday, March 6 2017
No doesn’t have to be yelled or sound mean to be effective. Try these 17 kind ways to say no that kids do actually listen to.
Category: Healthy Discipline and Setting Limits with Children
How Closer Connection Created a Calmer Classroom
Thursday, February 9 2017
I work as a learning assistant in a large comprehensive school supporting children who have a variety of special educational needs. One of the most challenging is an English class with 13 and 14 year
What Playful Limits Look Like at School
Sunday, February 5 2017
Sarah Charlton on Setting Loving Limits I recently begun working as a learning support assistant in a UK secondary school. The job’s going well but there is one girl that I support who has been
An Alternative to Shouting During Morning Upsets
Thursday, December 1 2016
I have done a lot of limit setting and Staylistening with my 5-year-old since learning Hand in Hand Parenting’s five tools, and I’ll admit that Staylistening has been a work in progress. Staylistening comes from
How One Mom Kept Her Limit (and Her Calm) After a Playdate
Monday, November 14 2016
By Andrea McCracken As the school year has got started my daughter has gotten more and more social, and wants to play with her friends often after school. One day at a friend’s house they
5 Parenting Tricks To Make Halloween A Real Treat
Friday, October 28 2016
Halloween is a time for fun, thrills and excitement, but it’s also a time for costumes, candy and chaos. No wonder children can become a little, er, “ghoulish.”
Here’s how you can use Hand in Hand’s Playlistening and Staylistening tools to overcome 5 common Halloween hurdles.
A No-Fuss Way to Set Limits on Screen Time
Sunday, October 23 2016
My four-year-old son LOVES garbage trucks. He is obsessed with them, and not just the trucks. He loves everything to do with garbage disposal: garbage cans, recycling, compost, trips to the landfill, and the garbage
How To Set Limits In Five Words or Less
Thursday, September 29 2016
Even when we bring our best selves, by not shouting, bribing or threatening children when we try and tell them no, setting limits, and having them listened to, still often feels like an uphill struggle.
Sometimes the Answer Just Has To Be “No”
Wednesday, June 29 2016
By Andrea McCracken As parents, we often fight with the idea of saying “no” to our children, especially if it means a big upset in public. But sometimes the behaviour that is driving us batty is
Wired to Connect: Discipline Shouldn’t Hurt
Friday, June 3 2016
Discipline doesn’t need to hurt to be effective. In fact, it’s more effective when the child has a deep attachment to you. The end goal is to provide him with the skills, tools, and motivation to reach his fullest potential.
Why You Should Indulge Your Child’s Attention Seeking
Monday, April 25 2016
One mainstream response to ”attention seeking behaviour” is to ignore the bad and praise the good. But this doesn’t address the underlying upset feelings that are always beneath our child’s off-track behaviour.
Mad Love: or Why We Let Our Kids Get Angry
Wednesday, March 23 2016
Teaching kids healthy ways to deal with anger is challenging. It means caring for myself, asking for help through the hardest parts, pushing hard against the door and letting myself growl, “how dare they act like this after all I have done for them today!?!”
Setting Limits at the End of a Trampoline Turn
Monday, March 21 2016
You get to decide what the limits are, but your child is allowed to feel however they need to about that limit.
15 Tips To Stop Shouting at Your Children
Thursday, March 17 2016
We’ve all been through it. That moment where you catch yourself saying things that you regret later. We all say things that don’t exactly sound like the loving, peaceful parent that we intend to
Setting Playful Limits On Cartoons And Screen Time
Tuesday, March 8 2016
We started setting limits with cartoons about two years ago. My son would ask for just one more cartoon, and I would stand my ground and simply tell him, “Not now,” or, “You can watch some more tomorrow—but not now.”