October 4, 2021
Be wise. Think long and hard about what is best for your children’s emotional health—not your own comfort, or their popularity, or their access to social media—before making this life-altering decision about getting them phones.Timestamps: 01:00 Why this is the wrong question. 04:30 How using phones is like smoking. 06:07 The effects of phones on kids. 09:00 How phones
September 30, 2021
Parenting and Discipline Problems Over 50 YearsI’ve been reading articles about parenting for fifty years, including articles written long before I was born. In 1940 and in 1982 public school officials were asked what the top discipline problems were in their schools. Here are the problems listed for 1942: talking, chewing gum in class, making noise,
September 27, 2021
Teach your children that you love them anyway, that they can believe it and feel the truth of it, and that being right is exhausting.Timestamps: 00:00 Child can’t stand being wrong, complains about everyone else being wrong. 03:22 Taking him through a discussion on why he is the best but chosen last. 06:14 Five ways to distinguish between
September 23, 2021
A Child Explains When She Started to Behave BadlyI know a five-year-old child, Ziva. Her mother, Victoria, told me that in the last several months, Ziva had been extremely difficult to get along with—at kindergarten and at home with her sister and her mother. She was resistant, angry, and impossible to correct. One day, Ziva said to
September 20, 2021
Our children need our love, guidance, and sometimes our protection from other people who would control them or otherwise make them feel worse about themselves.Transcript:New Friend is an Angry Friend A mother told me that her young daughter, Ella, invited her new friend, Sue Ellen, to play at Ella’s house. In the next room, Mom could
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