Parenting Tidbits

Another installment in my Positive Discipline Articles. Recently I had the great fortune of crossing paths with Amy McCready, founder of Positive Parenting Solutions, Inc. She runs a very comprehensive educational website chocked full of parenting advice focused solely toward helping parents raise capable, well behaved children with high self esteem. Amy offers a free […]

Today is a big new first here at Heligirl. I’ve done a blog swap with Ericka from Alabaster Cow. Hop on over to check out my brutally honest post about the guardian angel who entered my life when I was a pathetically miserable “victim” of my circumstance and taught me a simple, yet infinitely valuable […]

Saturday Playdate

by Heligirl on July 10, 2010

in Daily Ramblings,Positive Discipline

Today I have the extreme pleasure of heading over for a Saturday Playdate at the Life of Rylie … and Bryce too! LeeAnn, Rylie and Bryce’s super mom, has been having one tough time when it comes to picking the kids up at daycare. Seems Rylie all but goes into hurricane mode when mom arrives, […]

Connection Made

by Heligirl on June 25, 2010

in Daily Ramblings,Positive Discipline

If you’ve been reading Heligirl for any amount of time, you know I’m a huge believer in positive discipline and doing all I can to work with my kids rather than punish them when they misbehave. More often than not I feel like I’m stumbling in the dark and crashing into some rather fragile things. […]

Another installment in my Positive Discipline articles. We’re hitting that lovely stage here in Jen’s World where Sweetness is all about the boundary testing. If I haven’t said her name in a kind but firm tone at least 3,867 times in a day, I’ve just not done my job. She’s throwing blocks, kicking the dog, […]

Another installment in my Positive Discipline articles. I’m inspired by the iPhone app I recently got called Positive Discipline Cards, which helps me resolve problems by providing quick, simple positive discipline techniques at the push of a button. I’ve been playing with it a lot, and in many cases, putting it to work. In fact, […]

I’m totally psyched about all the responses my post about sleep for Mommy and Molly has received. Poor Alissa has been having a heck of a time and I sure hope we’ve all helped offer her some good tools to put to work. To be totally honest, I was a little nervous writing on such […]

Use the Potty Daddy?

by Heligirl on May 7, 2010

in Daily Ramblings,Embarenting

We’ve been working on potty training. And when I say working, I really mean Mommy has been begging, trying, talking about, reading a million annoying books about, and basically hating the whole potty training thing. So far Sweetness has mastered grabbing her full diaper and announcing she wants to sit on the potty. After months […]