This week on King 5 News, I shared why parents should let go of blame and teach kids how to solve problems by focusing on solutions.
Video: Focus On Solutions
Positive Discipline in The Classroom: Recovery From Mistakes
In this activity, students learn the 3 R's of recovering from mistakes. They previously discussed that mistakes are learning opportunity. Now, the focus shifts to understanding that making the mistake is less important than what we choose to do about them.
Quick Tip: Framing The Problem
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Long-term Parenting: Destination Ahead
Today’s post is the third in a three part series on long-term parenting. The first post explored the idea of long-term parenting and the second post offered tools for widening your parenting lens. Today’s post offers specific tools to help move your family toward your goals.
The Bedtime Dance
We all know the drill. It’s been a long day, everyone is tired and it’s time for the kids to go to bed. Every step of the process feels like herding cats. Once there is more than one child in the home, the steps to this dance become even more complex. It makes tired parents want to hop up on a horse and lasso those kiddos right in to bed!