Parenting Strategies for Children Who Push Our five-year-old daughter is generally kind and considerate. However, she tends to push other children around on the playground, sometimes causing them to fall. How should I handle this? Reacting to the Push Remember our mantra: Parenting is equipping your children with the tools to succeed in life. I […]
Handling Tantrums in Older Children As a child nears three years of age, tantrums usually lessen as he gains the language to express himself, and he’s busy developing in other areas of his life (such as a blossoming imagination). Tantrums in older children (starting around 4-years-old) may appear with a surprising twist. A four-year-old is […]
You Will Survive. Your Child Will Thrive. Life Will Go On. Still, it’s hard to imagine even wanting to have another baby after you’ve held this one all day and been awakened three or more times at night. It’s hard to envision someone ever saying to you, “How blessed you are to have such an […]
7 Tips for Breaking Nervous Habits in Children The phrase “break a habit” has some biological truth behind it. A child’s developing brain consists of miles of tangled electrical wires. As the child learns and grows, he makes connections between all these nerve wires that store patterns of association. Patterns of association are things that […]
Helping the Shy Child Thrive Many children are labeled shy. If you understand what this term really means, you may decide that having a shy child is not such a negative quality after all. Shyness can be a help or a handicap to a child, depending partly on how it’s handled. Shyness is a personality […]
How to Know if Thumbsucking is Harmful or Helpful Thumbs naturally find their way into the mouths of babes and often stay there for years. Thumbsucking is a boon to babies but bothers onlookers and dentists. So what’s a poor thumbsucker to do? Can a baby and her thumb find happiness together without public censure? […]
Tips to Stop Toddler Screaming My 2-year-old screams at the top of his lungs whenever he doesn’t get his way. This usually happens when we’re in public. How can I teach him that this isn’t acceptable behavior? Yelling and screaming peak between the age of 18 months and 2 years. This behavior is not to […]
Biting and Hitting are Common and Should be Corrected Early On Growing teeth and hands often find their way into trouble. Toddlers often bite and hit with little regard for the consequences of their actions. Biting and hitting habits hurt and should be corrected, before serious harm is done to bodies and to relationships. 1. […]
How to Handle Genital Play Between Young Children We have had many phone calls from distraught parents who have gone ballistic upon opening a bedroom door and discovering two little naked bodies playing “doctor and nurse.” This scene, common in even the most moral and loving homes, pushes panic buttons in parents who wonder where […]
Reasons Not to Hit Your Child 1. HITTING MODELS HITTING There is a classic story about the mother who believed in spanking as a necessary part of discipline until one day she observed her three-year-old daughter hitting her one-year-old son. When confronted, her daughter said, “I’m just playing mommy.” This mother never spanked another child. […]
Benefits of Attachment Parenting for the Entire Family Attachment parenting offers so many wonderful benefits for not just mother and baby, but the whole family. 1. Mutual Giving The more you give to your baby the more baby gives back to you. Small and quiet moments of pure joy when your baby smiles at you […]
How to Stop Aggressive Behavior in Toddler Please help…my son (2.5 years old) is showing toddler aggressive behavior. He keeps attacking his dad (my husband) by hitting, punching, kicking, biting, screaming, growling, etc. He will occasionally do this to myself and his little brother albeit not as often. I have tried so many techniques to […]
