What does positive parenting mean to you? Do you see it as your own enjoyment of parenting or more about nurturing the positive traits in your children? Often the two go hand in hand. When we feel good about our moment-to-moment parenting choices, our kids are ...
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2 Tips for Positive Parenting
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. Rewards for potty training?
I am curious how other people feel about rewards for potty training. I steer away from rewards in most cases of child development. It is my training and experience that children develop their own internal drive best when parents don't create an exterior motivation. This takes the delight and joy away from the ...
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. Thoughts on praise by experts Faber and Mazlish
Since my last post on praise, I have been reading, How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, by bestselling authors and child experts, Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish. The authors offer an important chapter on praise, which I highly recommend. They provide many more details, exercises, ...
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. How to Effectively Praise Your Child
Did you know that praise is like a drug? That’s right, kids develop an actual chemical need for praise. Parental cheerleading, when overused and overblown, can be an obstacle toward developing independence and may cause undue anxiety in some cases. Furthermore, it may lead to the expectation of an audience for even normal accomplishments. Praise that is ...
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