Posts Tagged "punitive"
Helping Parents Who Haven’t Asked
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“If you want to be part of this family, then you’d better…” Imagine you saw your neighbor using harsh criticism, public scoldings and coercive statements like that with her 9 YO adopted daughter to “make her behave.” If you knew a better way to work with children and even had a book that could tell her not only how to create willing cooperation but how to...
Read MoreWhy Setting Natural Consequences Is Hard
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Children bickering and fighting can derail even the most mindful parent. Here’s my advice to Marilyn (children 5, 4) for how to get back on track. QUESTION: I find setting natural consequences hard at times. So my son and daughter each got these paper police cars that you create by folding. I made them each their own. Well, my son thought it was funny to crush my daughters police...
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