1-2-3 Magic: 3-Step Discipline for Calm, Effective, and Happy Parenting

day care from work and ask how long it took your child to calm down. Naps Erroneous Expectation: ...

What to Do: Don’t treat lying as if it were a great crime. If you already know that a child did ...

sit at the table, eat all of their dinner before dessert, and then ask to be excused. The Reality: Surprisingly ...

homework. Include one point for no complaining and one point for starting on their own without being reminded. ...

The Dirty Dozen: Faulty Parental Expectations was coauthored by Dr. Sarah Levin Allen, Pediatric Neu ...

PART V Strengthening Your Relationships with Your Children Parenting Job 3 CHAPTER 19 Sympathetic Listening CHAPTER 20 The Dan ...

19 SYMPATHETIC LISTENING Why It’s Important to Hear What Your Children Have to Say NOW WE TURN OUR attention to the final p ...

example, your ten-year-old son, Tom, comes running in the door after school yelling, “My music teache ...

When you are listening to your child, you are—like Tom’s mother —forgetting your own opinions for a while ...

excellent way to begin any lengthy, serious conversation, and being respectfully listened to is a great se ...

questions must not be loaded or judgmental. “Why did you do a stupid thing like that?” “What ...

Checks or Summaries From time to time during a talk, it is helpful to check out whether or not you are reall ...

learn a lot about what your children think about life. That’s important as you monitor their p ...

On the other hand, if you counted all the time whenever the kids were upset, you wouldn’t be a very und ...

“Mom—you idiot—my best T-shirt’s still in the wash!” is an attack from the start, and many parents would ...

Real-Life Story 4 SYMPATHETIC LISTENING A big piece of Parenting Job 3, strengthening your relationships with ...

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When my wife and I got our first house, we were thrilled to death. Not only did we have ...

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