How to Handle Toddler Meltdowns
Parenting Q & A with Vicki Hoefle Question: How do I handle “bad” toddler behaviors- aka toddler meltdowns? Scenario: My 2.5 year old daughter does not do this often, but …
Category: Behavior & Discipline
Guest Post: I Bully My Daughter.
The blog post was republished with permission from the author, Millie Shaw. Her courage and honesty continue to inspire. I bully my daughter. Oh, and I humiliate her in public, …
Five Tips to End Sibling Rivalry
It’s the Simple Things that Trip us Up Let’s say you’re having one of those June-Cleaver-would-croak-if-she-saw-you moments. Your kids are rowdy, screeching and tearin’ the place apart. You look into …
What’s the Trouble with Kids Swearing?
In one day, I saw two posts on the topic of kids growing up in homes where it was okay for them to swear. The most recent on the website …
Here is Why your Parenting Style Matters
There is loads of talk today about parenting styles and parenting techniques and parenting preferences. All the way from Velcro and Helicopter parenting to CTFD parenting. Truthfully, I agree there …
Denial and Addiction are Co-conspirators
I was part of a collective conversation several months ago that focused on addiction in teens and young adults specifically as it pertains to a parent’s denial of the situation …
Helicopter Parents Crippling the Next Generation
It seems that Helicopter Parenting is alive and well and that in spite of all the research that suggests this is a dangerous direction in parenting with negative implications for …
Rude & Disrespectful Behavior? How Does Your Child Say Hello?
Question: I have a nine-year-old who is so rude to people when they come over that they are completely taken aback. I, of course am embarrassed and angry that after …
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Podcast: Contributions
In this conversation with Vicki Hoefle, we talk about contributions. Learning how to contribute to the household helps children develop self-esteem and resiliency, qualities that will support them for life. …
Control – Who has it? Who wants it?
If I ask 100 people about their thoughts on control, 99.5 will whisper “I am a control freak”, as if this is a bad thing. Personally, I embrace and celebrate …
Encourage instead of Save
Question: My 5 year old son has recently started having great difficulty handling things that don’t go his way with his peers that he feels really passionately about. For example, …
Whining & Willpower
Q&A with Vicki Hoefle What can I about all this whining!? Scenario: I’m trying to deal with a whining 2.5 year old. I’ve tried ignoring her, but it only gets …
Tween Behavior During Divorce
Q&A with Vicki Hoefle Question: Is my tween showing “normal” behavior during divorce? Scenario: I am in the beginning stages of a divorce and I have noticed my 12 year …
How To Follow Through with Discipline
Parenting Q & A with Vicki Hoefle Question: How can I improve and follow through with discipline? Scenario: I am fine about calling off a play date, cancelling a family …
6 Tips: How to Navigate the Holiday Season with Grace
Whether we’re ready or not–the holiday season has officially arrived. Aisles are decorated, treats are piled high, and parents are beginning to brace for an inevitable increase in stress, excitement, …
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Fighting: Love Them? Ignore Them.
As parents, we often feel we have to “do something” when a war is raging over a video game or a baby doll. We feel we can’t just sit there …
Key Parent / Educator Questions
If we, as parents and educators, believe that every child is driven by an internal “genius” – an energy that naturally, without adult steering, will lead toward the discovery of …
Internal Motivation Infographic
Children naturally enjoy doing valuable work and are not afraid to make mistakes- they learn to discover success through feedback from peers, teachers, materials and so forth (not just because …
11 Benefits of Giving Allowance
There’s little argument at this point that handling money as a child will prepare you for handling money as a young adult and eventually, as an adult. Great. But what …
Zip it. For the Kids’ Sake
Ahoy parents! The tides are changing. Parents, educators, experts and obviously, the kids, have finally come to accept that the entire “over-parenting” approach to raising kids, just isn’t working out. …