3 Easy Ways to Create Connection Before Correction in Parenting

by Guest Blogger

Marcilie Smith Boyle, MBA, CPCC

Life & Leadership Coach

Certified Positive Discipline Parenting Educator

Connection Before Correction is one of my all-time favorite Parenting with Positive Discipline mantras. I believe these are words to live by both in the moment of dissatisfying behavior, and in the long run as a foundation for any relationship.

Several years ago I began to feel like a nag to my then 11-year-old son so I tracked the content of our interactions.  On one side of a paper, I tracked the “correction” interactions.  On the other, I tracked the “connection” interactions.    After only one day the corrections more than doubled the connections.  No wonder we were both annoyed with me!