Summer is nearly here, and for most of us, our plans have already been made and scribbled onto the calendar. Whether it’s vacations, camping trips, summer camps, or more, many parents look at summer vacation as time to fill. Often times, this means our children are being shuttled to place to place without having much time […]
I once had a radio host comment to me, “You have to be very brave to do all of this talking about how we discipline our children.” And anybody who has followed along with the comments feed for many of my articles about discipline might tend to come to the same conclusion. There is nothing […]
Helicopter parenting has become the go-to buzz word in the child-raising world. Everybody is critical of parents deemed to be overly protective of their child and helicopter parenting has become blamed for the failure of children everywhere to successfully grow up. All of this is so much so that the term “helicopter parent” is being […]
What does your gut do when you hear the two words every parent dreads? “I’m bored.” Maybe it is because of the incredible guilt that a lot of today’s busy parents carry around with them, or maybe because in the grand scheme it feels like the path of least resistance, but many of us are tempted […]
This post is in response to a recent viral video of a young child being hit with a paddle by his school’s administrators as a form of punishment while his mother looks on. How is this STILL happening to our children?! It needs to stop. Can we at least stop hitting the children?! At what […]
Oh the world of feelings!! It is all around us and we eat, sleep, and breath it from the moment we are born. There is solid evidence to suggest that the more we gift our children the opportunity to develop emotional literacy, the more capable they will become in managing the stresses of life as […]
As we watched again the unfolding of another world tragedy in Brussels and sat one more time with the horrible realization that this has in some ways become our new reality, for now, the minds of many big people naturally went to how to manage this information and make sense of it for their children. The […]
I was asked in a recent interview in the Vancouver Sun about what I hoped that people would take away from reading Discipline Without Damage. Below is my answer: It is my belief that we could change the world by embracing our role as parents and other big people with this kind of message […]
Even though we might not say it out loud, every parent has been there. You give and you give and you give some more to your children, working to keep their cups overflowing with love, and you’re left feeling like you’re getting very little in return. So that nagging little question forms – how do you […]
We live in a day and time when technology is all around us. The fact is, technology is simply a part of life now. And as much as that is true today, it is going to be increasingly so as our children grow. So it is important that the implementation of healthy boundaries and habits […]