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  • Live Chat Transcript: Must-have Parenting Tools for Toddlers and Preschoolers

    Parenting toddlers and preschoolers can be a challenge. Learn how the proper tools can empower you and improve your relationship with your little one.

  • 10 Strategies For Soothing Children Without Using Food

    When our children are upset, we want to soothe them. Often, by habit and by memory our own childhood experiences, we may be tempted to soothe with food. Food should never be the only option for comfort. The next time you're tempted to give them a cookie or lollipop to help them feel better, think of trying one of these strategies instead.

  • Word "No's" In The Positive

    Wording limits in the positive meets many goals of parenting: It increases the child's self-esteem, increases the parent's confidence, decreases the need for discipline or punishment, improves communication skills, increases cooperation, and teaches children self-control and how to practice power in positive ways. Learn how.

  • How to Offer Children Choices Within Limits

    Choices are the best tool for preventing and stopping power struggles and rebellion. There are a few ways that parents can run into problems, however, so here are a few guidelines for using choices effectively.

  • Ten Reasons to Hold Your Toddler

    They need reassurance that where their brains are taking them is safe. They need more explanations of the new encounters they don't understand. And they need holding and nurturing so they feel safe and can go back out there and explore some more...

  • Increased Stress for Mothers of Young Children

    I'm on the go all the time, there are constant interruptions and frustrations, a lot of things are anxiety-provoking or frustrating or both, and there's almost no time for a break. I'm actually worried about my health from all this. What can I do?

  • Increased Stress for Mothers of Young Children

    I'm on the go all the time, there are constant interruptions and frustrations, a lot of things are anxiety-provoking or frustrating or both, and there's almost no time for a break. I'm actually worried about my health from all this. What can I do?

  • Ten Reasons to Hold Your Toddler

    They need reassurance that where their brains are taking them is safe. They need more explanations of the new encounters they don't understand. And they need holding and nurturing so they feel safe and can go back out there and explore some more...

  • How to Offer Children Choices Within Limits

    Choices are the best tool for preventing and stopping power struggles and rebellion. There are a few ways that parents can run into problems, however, so here are a few guidelines for using choices effectively.

  • Word "No's" In The Positive

    Wording limits in the positive meets many goals of parenting: It increases the child's self-esteem, increases the parent's confidence, decreases the need for discipline or punishment, improves communication skills, increases cooperation, and teaches children self-control and how to practice power in positive ways. Learn how.

  • 10 Strategies For Soothing Children Without Using Food

    When our children are upset, we want to soothe them. Often, by habit and by memory our own childhood experiences, we may be tempted to soothe with food. Food should never be the only option for comfort. The next time you're tempted to give them a cookie or lollipop to help them feel better, think of trying one of these strategies instead.

  • Live Chat Transcript: Must-have Parenting Tools for Toddlers and Preschoolers

    Parenting toddlers and preschoolers can be a challenge. Learn how the proper tools can empower you and improve your relationship with your little one.