Three guidelines for stating rules that increase compliance in children Ever start to feel like a broken record? Have you considered recording those instructions and reminders you say to kids again and again? Don’t throw things in the house! Have you done your homework? Leave your brother […]
Read more →Building Self-esteem and Confidence: Pay Attention to the Positives Make a list of everything positive you have done in your life. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Now take a look at what you have done. Does this help you feel more confident? What else would build your confidence? Would you […]
Read more →Defective and Effective Communication Patterns (which rob couples and families of their power) Do you live on a one-way street or a two-way street? Are you and yours aware of defective and effective communication patterns? Conversation Killers Psychic Assumptions– Rather than discover and explore what someone else […]
Read more →Silly question, right? How can you ever have enough to stop the madness when it comes to the ways adults often interact with children who have differences? We can make it better. We can train adults in more loving and effective methods, and we can teach children […]
Read more →Caregiver Stress Inventory
On January 18, 2017 / ADHD Web Log, Anger, Anxiety, Asperger Web Log, Blogs, Good Parenting Newsletter
Caregiver Stress Inventory Rate from 1-5 where 1= not true and 5= extremely true in my caregiver stress inventory ___ I don’t sleep well enough. ___ I drink too much. ___ I need drugs to get through this. ___ I don’t exercise enough. ___ I don’t have […]
Read more →Top Five Parents’ Digital Age Benefits: 1.) I can micromanage my child’s education. I get electronic notifications if they misbehave, miss an assignment, or make a bad grade way before the report card comes. 2.) I can track my teens’ location by their GPS cell phone. 3.) […]
Read more →Create motivation with your Dream Book You can create motivation with your dream book. This going to become your journal of goals and inspiration that will take the place of your doubts, fears, and self-imposed limits. Dreams have no limits. Your limits are created by your […]
Read more →Oppositional-defiant disorder behavior- Do we create this by accident?
On June 1, 2016 / ADHD Web Log, Anger, Asperger Web Log, Blogs, Good Parenting Newsletter, Uncategorized
Do you get faced with Oppositional-defiant disorder behavior often? I think we sometimes influence kids to act this way by the way we interact with them. Our conventional wisdom about discipline dictates we pay attention when they misbehave. What does the child who doesn’t sit still and […]
Read more →How are you teaching emotional control and the power of thought? https://vimeo.com/131704250 It can be tricky to teach children emotional control. Trickier still to teach them how their thoughts can create fear, sadness, or anger. How do you help them understand that they don’t have to believe […]
Read more →How we wreck kids from the inside out. What can happen with ADHD and self-esteem. https://vimeo.com/160608811 ADHD and self-esteem, how do we keep it up, and what tears it down? “Worst Grandfather in the World” is what I call the story in the video below. This is […]
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