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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Time-outs are harmful
Timeouts Are Harmful ⬇️Tantrums and misbehaviour are a normal part of child development. Young children haven’t yet learned how to manage their emotions, so when they lose it they need...
Calm Down Corners - not for every child
Do this instead ⬇️Struggling with your child’s calm-down corner? It might be because it’s not meeting their sensory needs. Every child is unique, and their sensory preferences play a big...
Dropping an old-school parenting belief
Outdated ⬇️It's worth stopping to think about whether you're operating on some vintage parenting beliefs that our grandparents used to use. Many are ingrained into us without us realising or...
They're only little once
About today ⬇️August has been asking to go bowling for weeks now. Not sure why - he hasn't been in years.The cheapest place to go was timezone, but when we...
Play Fighting to help kids calm down after school
Why we fight ⬇️If you have a toddler who’s full of energy and emotion - look no further than play fighting. There are SO MANY benefits.After school and preschool my...
5 Reasons why ignoring your child's tantrum can be harmful
“Just ignore them”We’ve probably all been told to just ignore our children when they’re having a tantrum. Thats because ignoring them can sometimes ‘work’. But at what cost?Being ignored -...
How to respond when your child is angry, frustrated or upset in public
What to say ⬇️It's easy to fall into the habit of trying to stop kids crying or showing frustration. In public, their outbursts can feel embarrassing. At home, their emotional...
My kid pushed another kid
NOT NAUGHTY ⬇️⬇️Our kids KNOW that pushing, shoving and hitting are ‘bad’ behaviours. They most often don’t WANT to hurt someone else, but it’s the FASTEST way to communicate in...
Reduce Bickering
STEP 1 ⬇️⬇️In no way am I expecting that my kids are going to get along all the time and not bicker, fight and struggle against each other.They're young, they're...
After School Meltdowns
QUICK FIXES ⬇️ My kids, like most kids, are often super dysregulated after a full day of preschool. They’re tired, hangry, sick of transitions, interested in all their toys but...
Parenting Respectfully ≠ Being Passive
Kids are allowed feelingsHolding space for feelings is so important. Kids need to be able to feel the full array of emotions life throws at them, just like we do....
Tantrums and Meltdowns
Coping ⬇️If your kids are "angels" in one setting then struggle when they come home to you - please rest assured that you're doing a great job.When we as parents...
Breaking the Emotional Blackmail
Control it ⬇️Children don’t control our emotions. We do!What one adult may react to or be triggered by, another adult may not. That’s because we’ve all had different experiences, upbringings...
There's no such thing as 'naughty'
🕵♀Be a detective🕵️♀️When your child hits out at you, focus on what they’re trying to communicate, not the behaviour.When your child says something mean, focus on what they’re trying to...
When you tell your child to stop doing something and they keep doing it...
Try this ⬇️When we tell our kids exactly what we'd like to see them do, we take away the cognitive load, we take away the temptation, we tell them what...
My kids are fighting over a toy - What we can say
A script! ⬇️The way you speak to your kids is EVERYTHING and it can mean the difference between everything working out and everyone having a meltdown!I find that this fun...
Self-esteem is everything.
😔If we're honest - I bet all of us can say we've said a phrase like this or had something similar said to us when we were children.🥺It comes from...
Your child's brain, why they're misbehaving and how to help when they're losing it
What to do ⬇️Sometimes our kids seem to lose it over the smallest things, like what colour cup they drink from or suddenly deciding they don't want something they've asked...
Taking Breaks Outdoors
We were losing it ⬇️Sometimes it feels like a military operation trying to get kids outside or to do anything but we do A LOT of it because we see...
When swimming lessons go wrong...
My response ⬇️When our kids feel dysregulated, out of control, the worst thing we can do is try to be more in control and push them further out of the...