Five Mistakes Gentle Parents Make When Disciplining Their Children
Welcome to a FREE guide to help you identify 5 of the most common mistakes made in gentle parenting and how you can overcome them.
The Importance of Walking Away
Too often people expect their kids to change their behaviour as they see themselves as right. Yet we then tell kids to walk away when they are older. How can kids reconcile this when they've never seen it modeled?
Discipline Under Stress
Most gentle parents I know don’t use punishment or love withdrawl (thank goodness) and so when they find themselves in a situation like we are in and their kids start acting out more and more, they can start to doubt that they’re doing much of anything.
When Our Kids Lie
Why do our kids lie and what can we do to avoid it happening too much?
“He Just Wants Attention!”: When Our Kids Are Acting Out For Connection
Connection is not something to become conditional, yet that's exactly what we do when we fall into the trap of thinking our kids act out for attention only.
Controlling Ourselves for Effective Discipline
Effective discipline can be gentle, but often parents find it difficult because they fail to realize two crucial elements: you can only control yourself and you don't need to make a fuss.
How to Love Your Child Unconditionally
Many of us know that we're supposed to love our kids unconditionally, but we lack the ideas as to how to do this effectively. Looking at good times, bad times, and every day times, this explores how you can achieve unconditional love for your kids.
Deserving Love
I had a choice in a moment: To focus on the "misbehaviour" or focus instead on making sure my daughter understood one critical thing. I chose that critical thing - knowing that she is always loved by us.
When Anger Isn’t Really Anger: The Relationship Between Fear and Anger
Sometimes our children's anger can seem irrational or out-of-place given the circumstances and in turn we react defensively and with anger ourselves. What if we could see the anger as really fear-based and respond in kind?
What Makes Gentle Parenting “Gentle”?
"Gentle" parenting or sleep training is making the rounds as an "it" thing, but is all of it actually gentle? Sadly there are too many wolves out there dressed up as sheep and it's up to us to identify the real gentle help from the pretend stuff.