Respectful Parenting
How to be the best parent you can be by connecting with your child and holding your boundaries respectfully.
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Respectful Parenting
Worth it?100%. When we lead our children by being firm and kind instead of authoritarian, our kids benefit.Did you know that children who are shouted at to curb behaviour spend...
How to handle tantrums when leaving the park
Follow these steps below:PAUSE.Time to calm yourself. You've got this. Kids have screamed and tantrummed before. This isn't a reflection on you. This is a child communicating in the only...
How to avoid feeling triggered by mean stuff your child says
Did you hear the message?! Or are you being triggered by the words?!Turns out the words don't mean a whole heap. The words are what little they have in the...
Teach your child to calm down with Frozen
Practice practice practice. We need to do more of this for ourselves - let's face it. If you're feeling triggered and shouty because of your child (don't we all) then...
What to say when your child is angry
A script to make it easier. Tantrums are part of normal development. They’re a sign your little one is comfortable to share their emotions around you. They can be really...
When your child's behaviour feels personal
It's not personal. Your child isn't lashing out at you (physically or verbally) because you're a terrible parent. Your child is losing it because they're dysregulated and YOU ARE THEIR...
4 Easy Ways to Improve your Toddler' Attention
Kids ARE busy by nature. They have short attention spans and that's to be expected.The average attention span for a toddler in 3-6 minutes when they don't have adult support....
Are you stuck in a Shouting Cycle?
None of us want to shout at our kids.We don’t plan for it, it just slips out. It slips out of us because that’s how we were parented - that’s...
Why you should be a pushover to support your angry child
Being a pushover can help. Fact: kids get themselves all wound up and frustrated. Fact: sometimes you can predict times in the day when your child is going to be...
What is Co-regulation and how can it help my child's behaviour?
Children DO what they SEE.Children need to SEE us regulate our own emotions and respond to them respectfully and calmly before they learn what to DO and can successfully regulate...
My son won't share with his sister, what can I do?
Sharing isn’t caring. Your child can’t share and that’s okay. It’s developmentally appropriate for our under five year olds to find it difficult to give away the thing that they’re...
You're being silly
They're not being silly. We're not listening. It’s so tempting to say things like “stop being silly, stop being silly, that’s enough” to our children, especially when they’re misbehaving in...
Responding Respectfully to Tantrums
It’s ok to cry. Tantrums are normal. We have to remember this when our little ones are losing it. They’re experiencing a lot of emotions that they don’t know how...
Say ALL the Kind Things
Things I try to say to my children every day: I’m so proud of you. I love you just the way you are. I wouldn’t change anything about you. You...
Help! My Baby keeps pulling my hair!
Because saying 'ow' makes it worse!There's ALWAYS a respectful way to manage your child's behaviour and help them to do something different. A baby or toddler, with an underdeveloped brain,...
Help Your Child to Calm Down with a Camp
Can you remember your camp/fort building skills?! I'm sure you can. Dig them up again to help your little one calm down. My kids were so disregulated this evening. They...
Misplaces Mum-Guilt
Do they actually care?Or are you just beating yourself up??Go easy on yourself. When I gave birth to my second child I was so upset about losing time with my...
Reminder: There's no such thing as naughty
I'm not joking.Labelling kids as 'naughty' can make their little minds take that word on as a personality trait. "Wow - mum thinks I'm naughty so I must be. I'm...
How to Reduce Power Struggles
Children challenge us when they feel powerless.And it's fair enough. If our little ones were to spend a day recording us, we'd be shocked with the amount of directions they...
Why I Do What I Do
Yesterday I saw a little boy locked outside and screaming and banging at the door to be let back in. He couldn’t have been older than maybe two and half...
