Setting Limits and Staylistening Those of you with picky eaters are familiar with requests—or demands—for “something else” to eat. Rigidity around food is like rigidity around anything else: it signals a need for help. We often need to set a … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Healthy Discipline and Setting Limits with Children
How To Listen To One Child Cry When My Other Children Need Me
Staylistening With Emilie Leeks We have three children, and I must admit I do find it a huge challenge keeping on top of everything around the house, while also being there for each of them when they need it. Recently my … Continue reading
17 Kind Ways To Say No To Your Child
On Setting Limits Juliet looked at her mom, her hands already on the paint pot. “Mama? Can we paint some more. Please?” Her mom, tired and in the middle of signing a school memo, looked at her daughter and sighed. … Continue reading
How Saying No to My Daughter Helped Stop Her Upset
A Guest Post on Setting Limits By Emilie Leeks Setting limits on small things is something I used to find very hard. Sometimes I feel I’m just being petty by not doing things for the kids when technically I can, but … Continue reading
What Playful Limits Look Like at School
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 highly resistant to any help, … Continue reading
Does My Child Read Too Much?
Dear Hand in Hand, My daughter’s school is really pushing reading. They constantly say how reading opens the world and makes for a more ready and open learner. I’ve always thought I was quite lucky because my 7-year-old girl just … Continue reading
How One Mom Kept Her Limit (and Her Calm) After a Playdate
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 had played, had ice cream … Continue reading
5 Parenting Tricks to Keep Your Halloween Happy
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 ghoulish. If you don’t want to morph into a monstrous mama or papa, try these … Continue reading
A No-Fuss Way to Set Limits on Screen Time
By Heidi Granger Russell 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 … Continue reading
Take a Time Out from Time Outs
Your son has been acting out all day. First he grabbed his friend’s toy truck at a playdate and refused to play nicely. He threw it across the room when you asked him to return it. Then when you … Continue reading
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