Why Prevention is a Powerful Parenting Tool
Why Prevention is a Powerful Parenting Tool. Prevention is a great way to avoid parenting problems and pitfalls. Prevention is talked about it the Babywise series, but I wanted to …
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.
“Mom, not baby, decides…”
Mom, not baby decides. How to apply this Babywise principle. I have had a question on the idea of “mom, not baby, decides…”. In an email Anne-Marie Ezzo sent to …
Allow Your Child to Surrender with Dignity
Let’s reach our inner child and imagine something. Imagine you have a job (if you do have a job, you can make this game easier and just imaging your job). …
How to Stop a Tantrum by Addressing The Choice Addiction
How to stop tantrums by addressing the choice addiction. Common choices given to children they shouldn’t have and how to stop the tantrums that go with them. When a tantrum …
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Parenting with Love and Logic Book
Close to a year ago, I read the book Parenting With Love And Logic. While I don’t agree with everything in the book, I do find it to be a valuable …
Love Languages
I recently wrote a post about getting to know your child’s personality (see http://babywisemom.blogspot.com/2008/02/get-to-know-your-childs-personality.html). In it, I listed different things I find valuable to discover about your child as early …
Understanding Why vs. How When Parenting
Humans are creatures of habit. Once we get an idea of how something should be, we will stick to it rather stubbornly. This is as true in parenting as anything …