Discipline

Sticker charts for behavior

I’ve recently been struggling with how to deal with my 3 year olds behavior. All my old “tricks” stopped working. Time-outs didn’t work, taking away tv time didn’t work…I didn’t know what to do. I felt like I was losing control. Each day was mentally and physically exhausting. The mornings when we were trying [...]

10 Suggestions for Discipline

My child’s teachers are often sending home parenting tips and articles that they receive in their continuing education classes. Below is content from one of the articles I’d like to share. I don’t know who the author is, but I’ve had this hanging on my fridge and it has helped me get through the terrible [...]

The age of time-outs

I grew up when it was ok to spank your child if they got out of line. And honestly, it was almost abnormal if you didn’t occasionally spank your kid when they were acting up. Now we live in the day of ‘time-outs’. I used to think this was a silly concept of course until [...]