Even someone who fact checks parenting experts and parenting advice needs to be fact checked once in a while. I was wrong. I admit it. I made a hasty comment about the odds of a parenting expert thoughtfully and readily answering my question about the three praises for every one reprimand. For those of you who wasted two hours watching the family-friendly movie Parental …
While I’m on a positive roll here, check out Smarter Ways to Discipline Children, a recent article over at the Wall Street Journal about the power of so-called positive discipline. Positive Discipline? A misnomer of sorts. It isn’t so much about discipline in the sense of on-the-spot punishment or stopping bad behavior as it happens but …
Despite the flurry of flu activity in the house, the strep, the late Ho Ho Hannukah/Kwanza/Everything cards, the dead fish and the general holiday mess/stress, I’m determined to start the new year on a positive word or two*. Thus I promise not to post about the recent ho ho hum genderized toy op-ed that offered nothing new but surely grabbed …