Category: Positive Discipline

  • Decide What you Will Do (To Motivate Children to Clean-up)

    Decide What you Will Do (To Motivate Children to Clean-up)

    Today, I want to share how this tool can be very effective in motivating a toddler to clean up.  “Decide what you will do and follow through” is one of my FAVORITE Positive Discipline tools right now with my 3-year old.  But I have been using it since he was about 1, though.  It helps…

  • Then there were 4

    Then there were 4

    Well, it’s been a long time since I have written a post.  Here is why!  In March we welcomed baby #2 into our family.  Little Eva has already stolen our hearts.  She came into this world at 1pm on a Saturday – giving Dad a full weekend to enjoy her before he had to go…

  • Distract & Redirect: The key to managing toddlers!

    Distract & Redirect: The key to managing toddlers!

    With toddlers (children under 3), Distract and Redirect is one of the most powerful parenting tools you can use! Children at this young age are often interested in doing things that they can’t really do appropriately.  Ie. They want to touch baby sister, but even when you show them 3 times how to do so…

  • My Top 3 Favorite Positive Discipline Tools

    My Top 3 Favorite Positive Discipline Tools

    Parenting is a lot like learning to drive in Montana winter weather. In the most heart-pounding moments, you are told to go against your natural instincts. As a Californian, when I moved to Mt, I told my husband I was really scared of driving in the snow. My husband gave me 3 small but challenging…