If you’re a parent, you know how stressful the job can be. Especially if you have what they call a “strong-willed” child. It’s even more difficult when siblings come along. But as you will hear in today’s episode of “Weird Is Great,” your whole family – including you – can experience a lot less stress [...]
Gentle discipline
“Almost four.” That’s my response these days when someone asks me how old my son is. As I write this, Benjamin is about ten weeks away from making the transition from a three-year-old to a four-year-old. And I couldn’t be more relieved. See, I’ve never been a baby/little kid person. Never wanted to hold other [...]
If you’re wondering how to discipline a child – your child – effectively, you are not alone. Contradictions and controversies rein in the Western world of discipline techniques. Spanking or positive discipline? Gentle discipline or rewards and punishment? While recently reading the book Healthy at 100 by John Robbins, the last thing I expected to [...]
By the time Benjamin was around two years old, I had a feeling he was going to be what some label as a “strong-willed child.” Now, in all of his three-year-old glory, I’m not sure he’s as much strong-willed as he is what I think of as a “live wire”: full of energy, in constant [...]
How to deal with tantrums? I was hoping beyond hope that I would never have to address this question personally. When my son reached the age of two, then two and a half, and still was not throwing temper tantrums on a regular basis, I thought maybe we would be able to walk right on [...]