Editor’s Pick. Written by Ariadne. Using compliance as a parenting strategy commonly involves conflicts, power struggles and threats of losing a privilege, punishment or bribery. Many parents want and expect compliance because they are the parent or “things need to get done” or “time is of the essence” or safety is a concern. However, compliance…
Category: Peaceful Parenting
Why Parents Should Leave Their Kids Alone
Editor’s Pick. Written by Jay Griffiths. Take a step back for a moment. Letting children have their own way? Doing just what they like? Wouldn’t that be a total disaster? Yes, if parents perform only the first half of the trick. In the cultural lexicon of modernity, self-will is often banally understood as brattish, selfish…
Flowing with the Stresses of Kids
Editor’s Pick. Written by Leo Babauta. Parenting can be stressful. That’s probably one of my bigger understatements, but as the father of 6 kids, I’ve learned a little about handling these stresses so that it’s not such a big deal anymore. Kids throw tantrums, demand to have their way, don’t see anything but their own…
The ABCs of Connecting with Our Kids
Editor’s Pick. Written by Ness Hoffmann. If you’re a regular reader of One Perfect Day, you’ll know that I’m passionate about building strong, positive and nurturing relationships with our kids. Here’s a list of ways to build a more connected relationship with your child. Some of these are very simple ideas, but it’s those little…
Control Your Child! Oh Wait, How did you do that?!?
Editor’s Pick. Written by Ariadne Brill. I was at the store recently, doing groceries at the end of a long day. Our dog had died the day before and the kids had come down with a cold. I was feeling sad, grief struck, tired and really all I wanted to do was buy some food,…
How to Teach Your Child To Do What’s Right
Editor’s Pick. Written by Laura Markham. Kids need our hugs, but that’s not what teaches them to do right. How do kids learn? Our modeling. When we take responsibility, when we apologize, when we regulate our own emotions so we aren’t yelling at them, children learn to take responsibility, to apologize, to regulate their own…
When Does Discipline Begin?
Editor’s Pick. Written by Kelly Bartlett. Parents often ask, “When should I start disciplining my child? At what age is it appropriate?” It is a common question of when it’s time to transition from the nurturing parenting of babyhood to using more of the “discipline” tools of toddlerhood and beyond. To answer this, we first…
9 Ways To Transform Bratty Behavior
Editor’s Pick. Written by Laura Markham. There is no such thing as a brat, only a child who is hurting. When our starting point as parents is a close bond with our children, we are their North Star, the point around which they orient. They want more than anything in the world to protect that…
Enabling Children To Express All Of Their Emotions
Editor’s Pick. Written by Sam Vickery. You know that feeling when you’re standing in the middle of the supermarket and your child picks that exact moment to have an almighty meltdown? Or when you have people visiting and your child decides that they don’t want to play with the visiting children, and a tussle breaks…
Why I’m Teaching My Son To Break the Law
Editor’s Pick. Written by J.D. Tuccille. In 1858, hundreds of residents of Oberlin and Wellington, Ohio—many of them students and faculty at Oberlin College—surrounded Wadsworth’s Hotel, in Wellington, in which law enforcement officers and slavehunters held a fugitive slave named John Price, under the authority of the Fugitive Slave Act. After a brief standoff, the…