Writes Free Your Kids: What does a peaceful-parenting home look like? I won’t presume to speak for all such homes, but, at first glance, ours doesn’t appear to be “peaceful”, at least in the ways many might suppose. Our home is loud. It is raucous. The children often scream. They often shriek and squeal. Towers…
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Are you Damaging Your Child by Demanding Obedience?
Written by mudpiemama for AuthenticParenting.info. In our current culture, parents are praised when their children are obedient – it’s a mark of good parenting. The quieter and the more obedient the child, the better. In truth, parents are doing a disservice to their children and to society when they demand that their children do exactly…
10 Steps To Stop Yelling
Written by Laura Markham for Aha! Parenting. “Dr Laura….I know I should stop yelling, but I can’t. And I can’t imagine getting my kids to listen if I don’t yell at them…Can you move in with me for a week?!” – Cheralynn Like Cheralynn, most parents think they “should” stop yelling, but they don’t believe…
An Easy Way To Shift Your Mood – Permanently!
Written by Laura Markham for Aha! Parenting. Life can be hard. And being a parent is one of the hardest things we do. No wonder we’re in a bad mood sometimes. Getting into a better mood takes effort. We can choose to see things differently, to take better care of ourselves, to tackle the problems…
3 Steps to Stay Calm When Your Child Isn’t
Written by Laura Markahm for Aha! Parenting. When our child acts out, lashes out, or is simply in distress, it’s natural for us to panic. We’re plunged into “fight, flight or freeze” because it feels like an emergency. And if our child’s distress is directed at us, then she looks like the enemy. But it’s…
Lamenting a Noble Cause
Send him mail. “One Improved Unit” is an original bi-weekly column appearing every other Monday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by the founder and editor Skyler J. Collins. Archived columns can be found here. OIU-only RSS feed available here. When “The Hobbit” came out in theaters, I decided to read the book instead of seeing the film adaptation.…
Help Me Please!
Written by Darci Walker for Core Parenting. Why don’t we ask for help? Raise your hand if you are good at asking for help when you need it. Through our virtual connection, I envision a room full of crickets chirping as the vast majority of us sit on our hands and look around to catch…
How to Teach Children to Manage Their Own Behavior
Written by Kelly Bartlett for Parenting From Scratch. As with any “big picture concept” in parenting, the follow-up question is always how? I love this idea, but how does it work? I agree with this, but how am I supposed to put it into practice? I’m on board with this philosophy; can you give some…
The Best Way to Solve Your Child’s Problems
Written by Laura Markham for Aha! Parenting. Ever notice how kids don’t really want to hear your solutions to their problems? Teenagers, particularly, often react with downright hostility when we give them our good advice. That’s because they need to see themselves as capable. Every time we tell our child how to handle something, we’re…
A Plea for Civil Discourse
Writes Free Your Kids: Whatever your beliefs, you are doing your movement a disservice when you personally attack those with differing opinions. If you believe spanking to be wrong, it does no good – in fact, it does great harm – to tell a spanker that they are evil. You are not going to sway…