kids listening
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The best consequences for kids drop threats and problem-solve instead
Research has shown certain consequences for kids undermine the goal of raising good children. However, natural and logical consequences are invaluable ways to teach children. Learn more below. First, there was a pop! Then a snap! My ears were already ringing from screaming and now it sounded like a cap gun was going off around me. […] Continue reading
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This is the most valuable strategy for all good behaviour
Your child’s behaviour is especially difficult and you’ve tried to coach them, but nothing is working. Your child won’t listen despite using every parenting strategy you can think of. This positive discipline technique is the foundation for everything. Find out why this particular positive parenting strategy works so well. It wasn’t going to be a […] Continue reading
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Your Kids Will Listen if You do THIS
It’s so frustrating to repeat ourselves endlessly. These positive parenting strategies work in a way that kids will listen (almost) every time. “It looks like a beautiful ballroom!” she said. My five-year-old daughter was awestruck. She approached the open restaurant floor and twirled with wonderment. Even though we had only entered a bistro, I couldn’t […] Continue reading
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My Kids Aren’t Obedient and That’s Okay
My kids aren’t obedient because I don’t expect them to be. And there’s good reason for this. Find out why obedient kids should not be a goal of parenting. As we entered into my OB-GYN’s office, we may as well have been a three-ringed-circus. At eight months pregnant, I was so big my waddle […] Continue reading
About Me
Hi, I’m Alana. When I’m not nursing cold, stale coffee, I usually can be found with the baby on my hip, barefoot, and racing after my two older kids.
Thanks to a degree in psychology and a free-range childhood backing onto an expansive evergreen forest, positive parenting and play-based learning are my passions.