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The Parenting Stuff We Don't Talk About

Parenting is extremely complex, but we've tried for a long time to simplify it into discipline choices. We're told if we disci...

Think about this. The people in our lives who look past our faults and see our beauty, the ones who still see the light in us during the tim...

Photo Credit: Creative Child Magazine Dear Mom Who Is Too Hard On Yourself, It’s shocking, isn’t it? Motherhood. The way it stretches not on...

Tuesday, March 1, 2016 | discipline, parenting

Photo Credit: Creative Child Magazine My firstborn is a highly sensitive child. I didn’t realize this fact until he was three, and I didn’t...

Photo Credit: Creative Child Magazine It is the age of being superficially known by hundreds and deeply known by no one,...

With every correction, I am giving my child a message about who he is. Because children see themselves through the eyes of their parents, be...

All three faces on his behavior chart were flipped to the sad face side. Again. That meant he had to go to time-out. Again. It didn’t take m...

World-renowned relationship researcher and co-founder of The Gottman Institute, Dr. John Gottman, has conducted 40 years of research with th...

I had just gotten out of the shower and dressed when a knock came on the bathroom door. "Yeah?" I answered. "Mom, can I come ...

Thursday, January 7, 2016 | discipline, parenting

The first step in teaching children how to manage their emotions is learning to manage our own. If adults are easily upset and thrown off ba...

How to stop yourself from doing something you regret in a moment of anger by Andy Smithson Our kid's big emotions tend to be a major tr...