Your view of the world influences how you experience everything that happens to you. We each look at life through our own unique lens. Our view of the world can be negative or positive, encouraging or discouraging, rigid or flexible, competitive or cooperative. The good news is that once we...
The Parent Education Network's most popular workshop is based on the classic book called "How To Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk" written by leading parenting experts Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish. This book and workshop covers many common problems we have at home, from...
Everyone can relate to feeling like a bad parent. We all have that negative self-talk that plagues us with guilt, anxiety, and all those other negative emotions. Sometimes negative emotions can serve a useful purpose and sometimes they can cause unnecessary stress. How can we move out of that stressful...
Looking back at my parenting journey I remembered feeling very confident during the newborn stage. It seemed instinctual caring for a baby, feeding and dressing them. But once my son got older I became aware of my lack of parenting skills with discipline. Luckily for me, I happened to attend...
Self-esteem comes from the feeling of being loved and feeling capable. This develops in our children through the quality of our relationship with them. When you have high self-esteem, you accept yourself and your feelings, you recognize your strengths and have self-respect. Self-Esteem is nourished when the families: Show they...
During these years your children will spend less and less time with you. It’s more important now, more than ever, to connect in ways that really count. But for many of us, there are lots of things that get in the way of us spending time together with our teens/tweens....
Children don’t develop responsibility when parents are too strict, nor when parents are too permissive. Children learn responsibility when they have the opportunity to learn valuable life skills in an atmosphere of kindness, firmness, dignity and respect. Jane Nelsen, author of the very popular book ‘Positive Discipline’ explains kindness and...
“My child complains about being bored and expects me to drop everything to entertain him!” How do we respond to such a common statement? Often parents feel the need to fix every problem their children have, including boredom. Children spend many hours a day in front of screens and are...
“A child needs encouragement as a plant needs water” – (Rudolf Dreikurs, an Adlerian psychologist and author of Children: The Challenge) Rudolf Dreikurs thought that encouragement is the best skill to have and is the best way to help a misbehaving child. Encouragement is giving children opportunities to develop their...
Nothing hurts the relationship between the parent and child more than using punishment. It may be effective in the short term but it comes at a cost and also deprives the child of understanding and experiencing their behaviour when we punish. If we get angry and yell, send them away...
