by Smarter Parenting | Nov 19, 2017 | Blogs, Featured Posts>Correcting Behaviors, Posts, Others, Parenting Skills>Correcting Behaviors
Dealing with ODD | How to correct children’s bad behavior with Correcting Behaviors How to deal with challenging behavior in children is a question parents dealing with ODD ask. Children who have been diagnosed with Oppositional Defiance Disorder (ODD) exhibit both...
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 | Sep 7, 2016 | Blogs, Featured Posts>Correcting Behaviors, Posts, Others, Parenting Skills>Correcting Behaviors
The positive opposite of bad behavior Several months ago I started thinking a lot about how to improve my own behavior while parenting. I identified what I needed to change, but found myself reverting back to the same initial response during escalated moments. I even...
by Smarter Parenting | Aug 1, 2016 | Blogs, Featured Posts>Correcting Behaviors, Posts, Others, Parenting Skills>Correcting Behaviors
How to stop your children from complaining once and for all If you’ve noticed one of these communication mistakes in your own daily interactions, as I sometimes notice in myself, don’t become discouraged. The first step of changing behavior is recognizing there is...
by Smarter Parenting | Jul 27, 2016 | Blogs, Featured Posts>Correcting Behaviors, Posts, Others, Parenting Skills>Correcting Behaviors
5 tips for dealing with a meltdown There are many terms used to describe a sudden escalation of a child’s behavior: a tantrum, an emotional outburst, a loss of temper, a meltdown. No matter what word you use to describe it, “an outburst of severe emotional distress”...
by Smarter Parenting | Jul 7, 2016 | Blogs, Featured Posts>Correcting Behaviors, Posts, Others, Parenting Skills>Correcting Behaviors
Creating summer routines There was a freedom to summers growing up. That knowledge that I didn’t have to be somewhere at a certain time and could spend my days reading under a tree or playing night games with cousins made created some happy memories as a child. It...