Category Discipline
Regroup & Resolve
Every parent fails to deal perfectly with every parenting situation. In other words, we all screw up sometimes! Along the way weโve discovered that whatโs far more important than handling every parenting situation perfectly is to regroup, and resolve well.โฆ
Do Warnings Teach Kids to Be Less Responsible?
When dealing with a misbehaving child, many parents follow this pattern: instruction, warning, warning, last warning, really strong last warning, angry explosion!! When we stretch out our instructions into multiple warnings and donโt follow through, it teaches our children toโฆ
What to Do When We Blow Up
ย As hard as we try to parent like God would, we are human, and sometimes we mess up. We lose our cool, we speak harshly, or sometimes we even blow up at our kids. See how one mom handledโฆ
Did God Spank Moses?
The story of Moses at the burning bush is (thanks to Cecil DeMille and Charlton Heston) one of the most famous stories in the Old Testament (see Exodus 3 & 4). But have you ever read it as an exampleโฆ
Why Do Kids Obsess Over Video Games?
During my recent reading of โBoys Adriftโ by Dr. Leonard Sax, I came across a letter that really grabbed my attention. The letterโs author is a 27-year-old doctoral student at Notre Dame — oh, and heโs addicted to video games.โฆ
How to Deal with an Attention Addict
ย Recently, on a weekend when all our kids were home, we dug out the family videos for a trip down memory lane (or, in the case of our daughter-in-law, a crash-course in Jackson family history). Our kids’ childhood anticsโฆ
What’s REALLY Behind Kids’ Misbehavior?
Have you ever noticed that some kids argue more persuasively than others? Or that some kidsโ schemes are actually quite creative? Or that some kidsโ resistance to our requests is so persistent that we actually give in to them sometimes?
When Kids Act Up, Don’t Try to Be More Patient…
There are certain time when kids seem especially prone to “pushing our buttons”: after Christmas, after birthdays, summertime, and the list goes on. Kids have trouble figuring out โsharing patternsโ for their stuff, everyoneโs jazzed on sugar and tired from disruptedโฆ
Adapting Christmas…for children who joined your family through adoption
Todayโs post is from our friends, Colleen & Dave Little. They are the parents of three grown men and two vivacious young-adult daughters who joined their family through adoption. Together, Dave & Colleen meet with, and minister to parents whoseโฆ
Building the Family Team: A Solution to Chore Wars
7-year-old Bryce was a master โchore evader.โ When asked to help with chores, this distractable drama king would slump over and whine, โBut I wanted to play!โ His parents, Sandy and Jeff, had run out of ideas and came toโฆ