Reply to How often do you yell at your kids? Or...

Forum Index » General Parenting Discussion

Reply to "How often do you yell at your kids? Or..."

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]When I want them to listen I bend down to their level and speak more quietly.

Nothing is guaranteed to work perfectly in the moment. But overall you can encourage better behavior from using a lot of positivity and showing respect for your kids. Limits have natural consequences enforced without shame and with kindness.

It's hard to think of natural consequences for a lot of things, especially when they're young, but an easy one is not taking turns with a toy. If they don't take turns with a toy and I have told them that we need to be fair and that means taking turns and if they don't take turns, the toy will be taken away for a while, I just calmly ask for the toy (sometimes I do have to grab it out of their hands) and put it away. I empathize with their disappointment and sadness.

My natural parenting style would be a pendulum between emotionally volatile and permissive. But I have trained myself to be calm and then tolerate their disappointment and repeated asking to bend the limits. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics