Proactive and Directive Parenting
Proactive and Directive Parenting. How to direct your child to do right behavior before he or she chooses to do something they shouldn’t. In On Becoming Babywise II, we learn …
Discipline
Learn effective ways to discipline your children. You can start discipline as young as with your baby! Learn tips for correcting and training children of all ages, from baby through teen years. Get a solid foundation from my post Discipline 101: The Basics of Correcting Children. Read all about my Discipline Phrases to be prepared to respond to children when they misbehave. You can read up on consequences and find different discipline methods.
Why Toddlers Really Need Boundaries
Toddlers do not want boundaries, but they need them! How to help your child learn what is okay and what isn’t okay, and why you want to do so. Toddlers …
How to Use Substitution for Toddler Discipline
How to use substitution as a tool when your toddler does something he shouldn’t. This is a great discipline tool for the toddler age range. In On Becoming Toddlerwise, the …
Parenting Toddlers: a Critical Phase of Learning
Parenting Toddlers: a Critical Phase of Learning. Reasons why you should direct toddler curiosity rather than let the toddler have free reign. “Curiosity plus mobility puts a child in the …
Parenting Skills: Look to Yourself First
Parenting tip for shaping our child’s disposition. Children get their behavior from us; if you do not like something your child is doing, first look within. “If there is anything …
Controlling the Young Temper
Controlling the young temper tips. What to do when your young toddler has a tantrum. I recently wrote about how Brayden (now 3) had a short fuse when he was …
Start as You Mean to Go On as a Parent
Start as You Mean to Go On as a Parent. Do not start habits you will later want to break or allow habits you will later want to break. Just …