Are you looking for an easy way to get your child’s attention?
Sometimes parents describe kids as selective listeners. “He never listens to me!”
Consider why:
Presentation is everything. Does your child want to listen to more nagging and yelling?
They have to become selective to cope with the barrage of noise surrounding them. Most of the noise is [...]
Here’s a story about a typical trouble maker. From his earliest days in elementary school, Jonathon Mooney spent most of his time kicked out of the classroom. His teachers sent him to the hall because he was just too disruptive to the class. He was eventually labeled dyslexic and later ADD. He dropped out of [...]
In The Trouble with Time Out, I wrote how time out is seldom the most effective means to correct inappropriate behavior. That being said, there is a time and place for separating a child from a provocative situation.
As a teacher and parent, I never use the phrase “time out”. It is permeated with negative connotations [...]
One thing I’ve learned while being a parent is that there is not just one perfect way or one single solution to a parenting problem. All of the absolutist ideas that I had about parenting, before becoming a parent, have been challenged, questioned, or are now just laughable.
Discipline is one of these issues. Let’s consider [...]