Tag: what to do instead of time out

Take a Time Out from Time Outs

Wednesday, September 21 2016 No Comments

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 got home he ate just two bites of a sandwich, turned his plate upside down

Staylistening – How Does Crying Help You and Your Child?

Tuesday, August 16 2016 No Comments

What is Hand in Hand Parenting?: Day 4 Understandably, parents often become annoyed by crying and use all kinds of strategies to hush their child up. In my family, the stock threat was, “If you don’t stop your crying right now, I’ll give you something to cry about!” The policy was dead straight: “No crying