Your Strong Willed Child: Simple Ways To Help Them Comply
Dear Adina, I have a 2 1/2 year old, and she is very independent and strong willed. Giving her choices seems to help her to comply with my directions better. What are more good ways to get the child to follow through with your directions? For example directions to eat meals, pick up toys etc.? […]
Good Parenting: Raise Kids Whose Default Setting Is Positive
By Guest Blogger: Amy Burzinski The Upstander Project is a program which aims to make positive behavior into regular behavior otherwise referred to as social norming. Sounds obvious, I know—except that our proclivity is to accentuate the negative. How do we get to the positive? Through social norming, which is the process of identifying and bolstering […]
Kids Not Listening? Learn The Reasons Why
The biggest complaint I hear from parents is along these lines: My kids don’t listen to me! No matter what I say to my children they don’t cooperate! How can I get my kids to do what I tell them? It is quite frustrating for parents (myself included) when kids do not listen. There are […]