Jun 27, 2023
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Temper tantrums are a child's way of expressing emotions they can't yet articulate. By understanding their needs and emotions can learn how
This is why your narcissistic parent is never going to change:
Change requires self criticism, they're not able to criticize themselves . They think that their views are always right. They don't challange their own views of the world and their place in it.
Don't bother yourself asking for them to change. Give them natural consequences for their behaviour and grow yourself.
If I had to make a general rule for living and working with children, it might be this: be wary of saying or doing anything to a child that you would not do to another adult, whose good opinion and affection you valued.
John Holt
We live in a culture where the highest compliment a parent can receive is that his or her kid is 'well behaved' (read: docile). When strangers in restaurants tell us how 'good' our daughter is, they don't mean she is admirable in an ethical sense but merely that she hasn't been a nuisance to them. No wonder people declare matter-of-factly that it's simply unrealistic to do without treats and threats: these tactics may indeed be necessary if our goal is to produce children who spend their lives just doing what they're told.
Alfie Kohn
Picture this. You’re out at a cafe, having a great time with friends and family, you go to order your lunch and as you finish reading your choice of dish from the menu your partner leans in and says pointedly … Continue reading →
That’s right, we use rudeness to teach manners. It’s really quite laughable.
I’m not sure who came up with this ridiculous idea, but it’s certainly time for a rethink.
It seems like adults get so caught up in trying to force children to be respectful and polite, that they forget that the example they are setting is not exactly encouraging either of those things.
Why we’ve permanently paused early intervention therapy for our disabled children
Once upon a time, not very long ago at all, I saw my family’s neurological, sensory, communiction and developmental differences as ‘issues’ that needed interventions from clinicians. We were struggling daily as a family, and I thought that helping my children ‘be OK in the world’ would help us all. I did not that ‘being ok in the world’ meant being a compliant child who said and did the right…
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I was visiting a RIE parenting class for the very first time, sitting in a corner of the room watching babies freely exploring, unaware that my perception of infants was about to be radically transformed. One of the tiny scientists spotted my car keys on the floor next to me and began scooting towards them. … Continued
Parents? Please stop calling your children "lazy." You're creating a voice in their heads that will keep telling them that same thing for years to come, shaping their identity in all kinds of damaging ways. You're killing their self-esteem, their belief in their own capabilities. Please stop.