by Smarter Parenting | Mar 30, 2017 | Blogs, Others
How to make the skills work for you child with specific issues The Teaching-Family Model has been used since the late 1960’s and has been successful in improving the lives of hundreds of thousands of youth. Many of these children have diagnoses such as Autism,...
by Smarter Parenting | Mar 24, 2017 | Blogs, Featured Posts>Correcting Behaviors, Posts, Others, Parenting Skills>Correcting Behaviors
Correcting Behaviors vs. punishing: a better way to discipline my kids Parents want their kids to grow up to be good people. However, some of those “good” behaviors are not innate; they need to be taught. For example, most kids don’t naturally share well. If left to...
by Smarter Parenting | Mar 24, 2017 | Blogs, Others
Why we shouldn’t reward bad behavior How is a girl that is rude, selfish, and has been in trouble with the law 51 times due to lewd behavior, stealing, disturbance, verbal threats, violence in the last year has now become the a spokesperson with talks of her own...
by Smarter Parenting | Mar 23, 2017 | Blogs, Parenting Skills>Decision Making, Specific Diagnosis>ADHD
Using Decision Making to help your ADHD child make better decisons One of the common symptoms of ADHD or Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder is impulsivity, which means that children with ADHD make hurried decisions without thinking through the consequences of...
by Smarter Parenting | Mar 21, 2017 | Blogs, Featured Posts>Following Instructions, Posts, Others, Parenting Skills>Following Instructions
How I’ve made Following Instructions work with toddlers Do you ever feel like you are talking to an empty room when you ask your children to do something for you? A LOUD and MESSY empty room, that is. With a two-year-old and four-year-old at home all day with...