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  • Twelve Discipline Rules That Get Great Results

    Are you in the face of the toddler tantrums and sibling squabbles? Are you tired of the sick feeling in the pit of your stomach after you've yelled at your child? You're not alone. Child development expert, Kimberley Blaine offers parents positive discipline alternatives that will yield great results.

  • Overcoming Positive Parenting Roadblocks with Emotion Coaching

    Tired of the tantrums, the constant fighting, the sick feeling in the pit of your stomach
    after you've yelled at your child? You're not alone. Author Kimberley Clayton Blaine explains how emotional coaching raises healthier, happier kids and helps you get past some common parenting problems.

  • Baby Tantrums

    Various factors bring tantrums on, and if you can identify the trigger, then you can help your baby calm down and perhaps even avoid the tantrum in the first place.

  • Toddler Tantrums and Meltdowns

    Tantrums are sure to be in the top of parents' list of "obnoxious kid behaviors" and when your kid uses this routine in public it's just plain humiliating.

  • Your Ten Month Old

    Your little one seems to be heading on warp speed to his first birthday! New skills, new words, and new moves towards independence all weigh in heavily this month. Check out the milestones!

  • Coping With a Demanding Child

    Demanding behavior -- from the time a child is about two to four a parent can usually expect to experience it. Parents should not, however, excuse such behavior as only a passing stage. A parent's response to such bossiness may determine how long and how intense these battles last. How should you respond?

  • The Terrible One's: Tantrums

    QUESTION

    Dear Dr. Laura,
    My son is 11 months old. When things don't happen the way he wants them to he throws a fit. He will hit you, throw things and flat out scream for hours if you don't do what he wants. It's hard to know what he wants because he can't talk.

    I know he can't talk to express. I just want to know what I can do to make things better, and make him happy. Please help me, I don't know what to do.

    Concerned Mother

  • Tantrums, Fussing and Whining

    If you ask parents to list the most frustrating discipline problems during early childhood, you would find that these three items appear on every list. All children master their own version of these behaviors -- every parent has to deal with them!

  • When Kids Can't Have What They Want

    How to respond when the wants of parents and children differ is one of The Big Questions of parenting. Things usually go well when parents and kids want the same things -- problems start when they don't!

  • When Your Toddler Starts Whining

    Whining is very common as little ones head into their second year. Babies who are beginning to toddle but not speaking much whine as a means of communication. They don't know that we find it irritating, and they wouldn't have the ability to communicate differently even if they did.

  • Ten Tips for Holidays without Tears

    Disrupted schedules, traveling with little ones, the crash and burn from all the excitement -- Holidays can easily be a recipe for tears and tantrums. How can parents manage life in December to maximize the joy and minimize the tears? Here, our top ten tips for creating a season of meaning and wonderful memories for yourself and your kids.

  • Twelve Discipline Rules That Get Great Results

    Are you in the face of the toddler tantrums and sibling squabbles? Are you tired of the sick feeling in the pit of your stomach after you've yelled at your child? You're not alone. Child development expert, Kimberley Blaine offers parents positive discipline alternatives that will yield great results.

  • Loving Your Terrible, Terrific Toddler

    Toddlerhood can be a maddening time for parents. Your baby is growing into her own person. Your challenge is to keep your sanity and keep her safe. Your best strategy is to cultivate a great relationship with her and enjoy her emerging independence. How?

  • When Your Toddler Starts Whining

    Whining is very common as little ones head into their second year. Babies who are beginning to toddle but not speaking much whine as a means of communication. They don't know that we find it irritating, and they wouldn't have the ability to communicate differently even if they did.

  • Don't Give In, Give Choices!

    Why does this little trick work so effectively? Because it sidesteps the power struggle. The child is in charge. You aren't making him do something, he is choosing. No one likes to be forced to do something. Here, because he chooses, he cooperates. So how do you use this magic wand?

  • Give Your Toddler the Opportunity to Experience Competence

    Research has shown that toddlers tantrum less and cooperate more when they feel more powerful. There are three key ways you can help your toddler experience herself as a person with healthy power in the world...

  • Tantrums, Fussing and Whining

    If you ask parents to list the most frustrating discipline problems during early childhood, you would find that these three items appear on every list. All children master their own version of these behaviors -- every parent has to deal with them!

  • The Terrible One's: Tantrums

    QUESTION

    Dear Dr. Laura,
    My son is 11 months old. When things don't happen the way he wants them to he throws a fit. He will hit you, throw things and flat out scream for hours if you don't do what he wants. It's hard to know what he wants because he can't talk.

    I know he can't talk to express. I just want to know what I can do to make things better, and make him happy. Please help me, I don't know what to do.

    Concerned Mother

  • Coping With a Demanding Child

    Demanding behavior -- from the time a child is about two to four a parent can usually expect to experience it. Parents should not, however, excuse such behavior as only a passing stage. A parent's response to such bossiness may determine how long and how intense these battles last. How should you respond?

  • Toddler Tantrums and Meltdowns

    Tantrums are sure to be in the top of parents' list of "obnoxious kid behaviors" and when your kid uses this routine in public it's just plain humiliating.