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How Do You Cope with A Hyperactive Child
As every parent of a hyperactive child knows, no two days are the same. While we love our lively offspring with all our hearts, some days make your heart sing, while others can have you on your knees. Knowing how to minimize meltdowns and misunderstandings comes with experience, but with the guidance parenting technique, you…
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What Your Kids Are Really Saying When They Act Up
Don’t you just WISH you knew what your kids were trying to tell you when they’re acting up? Instead of them screaming: “Mom/Dad, I HATE you!” wouldn’t it be great if they could explain: “I’ve got some overwhelming feelings right now. I feel scared and mad and upset. I feel safe when you are here,…
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5 Tips You Can Use To Implement Guidance Discipline
2020 has presented parents with previously unimagined difficulties. The effects of coronavirus and the lockdown are all presenting parenting with new challenges. Keep reading to see why I believe implementing a guidance discipline approach will help ease your stress. Normal temper tantrums at the grocery store now seem even worse than they did at the…
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How Do You Explain Death To Your Child?
There is no subject more difficult to discuss with children and teenagers than dying. Terribly, it is also a subject that so often has to be discussed as the adult also has to cope with their own grief. Discussing death with preschoolers, school-age children, and teenagers should, of course, be approached differently. Preschoolers Death becomes surprisingly…
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Is Your Child Suffering From Anxiety? Here’s How You Know
These are worrying times with anxiety all around us. We’re all affected by coronavirus and the Black Lives Matter fight for justice. As parents, we need to recognize how these significant events are manifesting in our children. Anxiety in young ones was more common than most parents realized before the pandemic. Added to this was the…
A 3xTEDx speaker, media contributor, parenting coach, and a mom of two – helping families thrive by using the Guidance Approach to Parenting.