How To Get Your Children To Listen To You Without becoming mean and combative! Depending on your perspective, this article may come across as either very hopeful, or very challenging. I’m going to offer 4 things that I believe must be done in order to get children to not only listen to their parents, but…
Today I want to talk about what positive parenting is, and the mindset needed to develop this style of parenting. For me, positive parenting isn’t a specific set of skills and proper responses to raising children. It isn’t a list of techniques or phrases you have to memorize that will magically work in any given…
When my son was about 2 and a half, he was helping me with some gardening in the yard on a sunny Sunday afternoon, and I realized how much he loves nature and the outdoors. It also occurred to me that if he had faced a choice of sitting inside playing with toys versus being…
People seem to have this misunderstanding that it takes strength and courage to be tough, rigid and strict with your kids. And that being “soft” is being understanding and patient with them. I beg to differ. True strength and courage is being gentle and understanding with your kids. Having compassion and empathy, encouraging and listening, not punishing…
There is a popular mantra in personal development that says: Change your thoughts, change your life. I believe this concept applies very well to the area of raising children. Change your attitude, change your children The better our attitudes are about solving problems and dealing with challenges in life, the better our children’s attitudes will…