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Early in the New Year I’ve now started to add parenting goals to my list of personal goals. Top of the list this year is following through on a consistent strategy to help my kids stop whining. Or rather, to teach them better ways of asking for what they want.
What? A strategy? What strategy? You have one?
Tags: discipline, new year's resolutions, tantrums, whining
For awhile now, I’ve been thinking about how to raise kids in a culture where music, TV, movies, toys, books and…mommy are offered on demand. How do you help your children learn patience, portion control and restraint when they can request any show or movie whenever they want it? When they expect life to be available to them on their terms? Or rather, how do I temper their wants after giving them the option?
Tags: discipline, parenting, tantrums, whining
Lately, three year old Daughter has entered her rebellious streak, testing each one of my elementary parenting skills. It started a couple months ago, shortly after we began potty training. That was then a bust, even with my most passionate sales pitch. “Okay, honey, let’s go on the princess potty, then you can put a princess sticker on your pretty pink potty chart. If you go peepee all day, you’ll get a jelly bean after dinner!” Think I might have confused her with too many incentives? Regardless, it simply didn’t take.
Tags: discipline, preschooler, toddler