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The Toxic Effects of Shaming Children

Shame has long been wielded as a powerful tool to modify a child’s behavior. When made to feel unworthy, children will usually try harder to...

3 Simple Steps to Effective Parenting

Has parenting lost its joy? Does the end of the day find you overwhelmed, upset, or disappointed at the outcome yet again? I totally get it!...

Discipline doesn't mean to punish. The root word, disciple, means to teach. Rather than focusing on busting bad behavior, it is more ef...

10 Tips for Well-Behaved Kids & Happy Parents A Parenting Checklist to Curb Chaos By Amy McCready, author of The “Me, Me, Me” Epidemic A...

Saturday, July 11, 2015 |

I'm teaming up with The Gottman Institute to give away 3 copies of the Emotion Coaching series ! Emotion Coaching: The Heart of Parenti...

I hear parents all the time pleading with and warning their children to “be good.” This common phrase has escaped my lips a few times, too. ...

Time-out didn’t work in my home. I followed the “rules”. I placed my son in time-out for one minute per each year of his age. I did not enga...