Discipline & Behavior, Parenting Tips, Toddlers Who Stole the Cookie from the Cookie Jar? Who Me? A new study out of McGill University re-evaluated an age-old question about children’s honesty over their misbehaviors.*... Continue Reading
Discipline & Behavior, Parenting Skills Positive Guidance and Clear Limits: An Effective Behavioral Approach There are many different ways to discipline a child. Often, we start out with the strategies we remember from our own childhood. Then,... Continue Reading
Discipline & Behavior, Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips, Preteens & Teens, Toddlers Moving from Shame to Healing Hitting, biting, spilling, pushing, yelling, and fighting, followed by scolding, correcting, apologizing, teaching, guiding—again and... Continue Reading
Discipline & Behavior, Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips, School Challenges, Toddlers Getting Kids to School Trying to get our kids out the door on time in the morning can be a frustrating and exhausting endeavor. Even when we start off... Continue Reading
Adoption/Post-Adoption, Discipline & Behavior, Parenting Tips, Preteens & Teens, Raising Boys, Raising Girls The Rights of Children: “Born to be Wild” Whenever I see a group of children tear across Crissy Field or the beach, it makes me stop and watch with pure delight. To be free with... Continue Reading
Discipline & Behavior Impulse Control for Children Even though we all know that 2-year-olds are impulsive, it can still be tough to manage aggressive behaviors such as biting, hitting,... Continue Reading
Discipline & Behavior, Parenting Skills, Toddlers Guiding the Very Young Child What is the proper discipline for the child of 3, 4, or 5? Just as sirloin and sushi are not suitable foods for infant, so elaborate... Continue Reading
Discipline & Behavior, Leisure & Vacation, Parenting Skills A Witching Hour Guide Getting Safely — and Happily — from Kansas to Oz Do you dread the time between when your kids get home from school and dinnertime? Are... Continue Reading
Discipline & Behavior, Parenting Skills Understanding our Child’s Behavior with Empathy It’s sermon-writing time around our house. Being married to a rabbi during the months of August and September can be compared to... Continue Reading
Discipline & Behavior, Parenting Skills Let’s Hear It for the Dads! Twice yearly, I pay visit to my beloved redwoods along the coast or somewhere in the northern most part of our beautiful, diverse state.... Continue Reading
