What is the best gift you can give a child that won’t cost you a dime? A hug! Hugs are a powerful parenting tool that can change your day and your child’s life.
Are You A Resourceful Parent?
Learning to discipline your child through love can really test your mettle. Kids provide many opportunities that test us beyond what we think we are capable of enduring. What are some creative ways you discipline with love when you are at the end of your rope?
Interesting Combinations
What Makes Something Weird? As I am writing this post, my children are eating toasted cheese sandwiches with salsa (super healthy, I know). Sounds a bit strange, doesn’t it? My 3 1/2 year-old’s favorite two condiments are honey and ranch…together. He likes to dip grapes, carrots, sandwiches, cheese, and well, just about in the concoction. [...]
Raising Children: The Importance of 60 Second Parenting
This video poignantly displays why positive parenting is so crucial for your child’s development. Take 60 seconds today and create a meaningful interaction with your child.
Step 4 in Getting Started in 60 Second Parenting
Last of the four primary principles in getting started in 60 Second Parenting. Learn how easy it is to create meaningful interactions with your children on a daily basis.
Step 3 in Getting Started in 60 Second Parenting
In the last couple of posts, we have been covering the 4 main principles that help parents get started in 60 Second Parenting. As a refresher, here are the 4 principles of P.E.T.T. Parenting: P.erspective check E.ngage with your child T.alk to your child, and listen too! T.ime out. Take time for yourself In today’s [...]
Step 2 in Getting Started in 60 Second Parenting
As we talked about in the last post, there are 4 main principles to help parents get started in 60 Second Parenting. Those 4 principles are summed up in an acronym to help you remember – P.E.T.T. Parenting. Here are the four principles of P.E.T.T. Parenting: P.erspective check E.ngage with your child T.alk to your [...]
Step 1 to Get Started with 60 Second Parenting
How to get started in 60 Second Parenting on a Step-By-Step Basis: There are four main principles I like to emphasize with parents when they are getting started in 60 Second Parenting. Here is a little acronym to help you remember – P.E.T.T. Parenting. P.E.T.T. Parenting may sound a bit like you are raising a [...]
Christmas Toys Old Hat Already? Learn how to keep things new and interesting
Parenting Tips: Are Your Kids Bored with Their New Toys? It’s been a little over a month since Christmas. Has the Christmas Gleam worn off on all your child’s new toys? To be honest, my kids were bored with their new toys from Santa the day after Christmas! There was a time where [...]
Positive Parenting and the Power of Choice and Perspective
How to Apply Perception and Choice in Your Parenting We learn so many important lessons from our children and they are constantly giving us ample opportunity to test our our parenting skills. One of the most powerful parenting tools we have in our toolbox is the tool of PERCEPTION. Perception is your point of view [...]
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