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08/16/2021

03/27/2021

Join nationally-recognized parenting coach Amy McCready to learn state-of-the-art, battle-tested parenting strategies to take back control of your parenting.

02/24/2021

As a "recovering yeller" I used visual reminders to help me focus on using my calm voice. You can use sticky notes, alarms on the phone, jewelry, etc-- whatever works for you! 💗

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02/17/2021

You can’t teach children to behave better by making them feel WORSE. When children feel better they behave better.

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01/12/2021

Using time-out often increases the power struggle and ends in frustration and anger. While well-meaning parents have used time-out as an alternative to spanking, it doesn’t reap long-term benefits, so let’s learn what to do instead.

01/07/2021

❤ THE CHILD'S SEARCH FOR BELONGING ❤ Alfred Adler, M.D.

“It is one of the most important principles in any educational system to take the child seriously, to regard him as an equal and not to humiliate and make fun of him; for the child feels and must necessarily feel all those expressions of his immediate surroundings as oppressive, just as the weaker person possesses a sensibility different from that of an individual who finds himself in an assured position of a mental and bodily superiority. We are not even in a position to state exactly how a child is affected by the fact that (he or she) cannot do the things that he wonderingly sees his parents and (siblings) perform daily. This should be remembered. Everyone who has developed a capacity for reading the child's soul, must have realized that every child possesses an extraordinary craving for (personal) power and importance, for increased self-consciousness (and belonging); that he wishes to exert influence and feel important. The young would-be hero represents but a special case of power that all wish to have.”

* Alfred Adler (1870-1937), The Practice and Theory of Individual Psychology, 1923, 1971, p. 342. Translated by P. Radin. London, UK: Routledge, Kegan Paul. Excerpts by Carroll R. Thomas, Ph.D., January 5, 2014.

05/27/2020

02/28/2020

Raising kids who will become responsible adults isn't about doing more for them. In fact, avoiding these 13 things mentally strong parents don't do could the be the key to raising self-assured children who are ready to take on the world.