My teen wants to get a tattoo or piercing. How should I respond and how can I help them do this safely?
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Emotion coaching is a parenting approach meant to help children understand and manage their emotions. Instead of dismissing, ignoring, or punishing their feelings, you help them constructively express their emotions.
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Some worry that reward charts focus too much on external rewards and won’t help kids develop internal motivation. While this concern is understandable, when used thoughtfully, sticker charts can foster internal motivation, too. A sticker chart is most effective at encouraging small behavior changes over a short period.
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You’ve heard of using time-out to discipline a child – but have you thought of using time-in? This simple step may help decrease tantrums!
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Teaching your kids to cook is one of the best (and most fun) ways to connect as a family, while also giving them skills they need for life. And if you put a little time in now, they will end up genuinely helping you later on!
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To prevent dating violence, teens need to know that love isn’t just about how they feel. It’s also about how they’re treated and how they treat others. We want them to really understand that “love is respect.” But this message doesn’t have to wait until kids are teens! It’s important for young children, too.
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Gentle parenting is about maintaining authority with kindness and works if you're clear about the rules and consequences, and follow through.
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Picture this. Your child arrives home from school looking stressed and sad, but when you try to talk with them about why—they clam up. Or you’ve finished dinner, cleaned the kitchen, and sent your kids off to bed but then one comes into your bedroom looking worried and tells you they’re having a problem with something. How do you help them?
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