“Don’t you dare pick her up. We don’t pick up crying children. You don’t want to spoil her.” I can’t remember now what the exact situation was, but my small daughter, who was around 1.5 yrs, was really upset. Like that screaming, not breathing quite right, upset. She kept going around the table to everyone, […]
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“I don’t like it.” Those 4 words are enough to send a parent into crazy land. You just finished making dinner and set down the plates of food for your kids. A few minutes pass, then you hear the words, “I don’t like it…” A few moments later, everyone is melting. We work so hard
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Holiday Stress and Kiddos 5 Ways to reduce stress over the holidays: Holidays can be fun and also they can be stressful! With some communication shifts, we can help our holidays go a little more smoothly! Use the Connected Kids Thrive 5 Pillar framework: 1- Circumstance- What specific things are worrying you? Label them
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How to teach your child to do the dishes in a way that honors them and the process. Â Â Â Washing dishes- ah- a sticky topic… After all, dishes are an ever present part of life, so how do we get our kids to do their part? There are lots of ways, but many
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Kitchen Connections – Lying and Untruths  3 ways cooking together to address sneaking, lying, or untruths in your kids. Cooking with our kids has innumerous benefits. Practically ANY skill- both hard and soft- can be taught while cooking or engaging in kitchen connections with our children. Let’s talk about lying for a moment. As
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Easier or Harder on Our Kids Depending on the Audience- and Why???  Tearing up Our Sledding Ramps  Last year, our family went on a wintry sledding excursion with a couple other families. My daughter was 6 and was the oldest of all the children in the group.   We were having a grand
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Over-helping/ Rescuing/ Enabling Are you an over-helper?!? Most of us parents or caretakers of Littles tend to be over-helpers and uninvited rescuers.   Over-helping/Rescuing/Enabling 9-3-2020 Even though over-helping or rescuing or enabling comes at a great cost, we do it automatically with the best intentions! We just scoop in and solve problems! But, in
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“Use Your Words!” – Don’t say this. Here is why… Don’t say, “Use your words.” 7-12-2020 Does saying this actually work? Not generally, and it might be problematic for several reasons. We see a situation that needs support. A child screams and tries to take another child’s toy. (At least that was the picture we
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Transitions- Sprinkle them everywhere! It can invite our children to cooperate, or it can send them into fight or flight. Transitions Limit Temper Tantrums 5-11-2020 Have you ever abruptly scooped up a child from their current activity and ushered them to do something else? And then, did you suddenly witness their world ending? And then,
Tone is Everything! It can invite us to cooperate, or it can send us into fight or flight. Tonality Tip! (5-13-2020) Tonality as a Parenting Strategy! I want to reveal two amazing guiding strategies, that when combined together, are like magic- for both you and your child! They are Tonality and “Say it with a