If you missed our free webinar by Positive Parenting Solutions last week titled Getting Kids to Listen without Nagging, Reminding or Yelling, you’re in luck. We had technical difficulties and rescheduled the webinar for not one, but two different times to meet everyone’s needs. Here is the latest information: Tuesday, Aug. 24 from 1-2 p.m. […]
Positive Discipline
I typically have some pretty quick advice when it comes to toddlers and preschoolers, but when it comes to tweens and teens, my advice has to come from my studying and the advice of experts. I’m all about sharing personal experience here on Heligirl, so when Heather from Making it Work Mom commented on my […]
If you’ve never had to nag, remind or yell in an attempt to get kids to listen, please raise your hand? (sound of crickets) Ahh, I thought so. I know I’ve beat my head against the wall way too many times as my children suddenly become deaf or develop selective hearing the moment I need […]
When I was growing up, the rules in our house were pretty similar to those in most households of the 70s and 80s: do something the parents don’t approve of, get punished. My brother and I were spanked with hands and wooden spoons. (In fact, I remember they even had a paddle in grade school […]
It’s been three weeks since my commitment to do something special with the kids once a week before Labor Day. On July, 20, I researched and wrote a list of the things I really wanted to do. Today we checked yet another one off the list. This morning, as rush hour was coming to an […]
It might happen the moment you bring baby number two home. It may not rear its ugly head until that younger child starts moving under her own power. If you’re really lucky, it may even start a little later. But make no mistake, siblings will fight and it will test you, possibly to the point […]
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 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, […]
