Help! A Teenager Has Moved into My Child’s Body!
Help! A Teenager Has Moved into My Child’s Body! Help! A Teenager Has Moved into My Child’s Body! Parents, have you experienced the teenage time warp phenomenon yet? One minute you’re snuggling with your kindergarten-age child, who has crawled into your bed on a lazy Saturday morning, and the next minute you’re staring at a […]
I Was Punished, and I Turned Out Fine
I Was Punished, and I Turned Out Fine by Dr. Jane Nelsen How fine is “fine”? Fine is relative. Yes, most of us turned out just “fine.” We can laugh at some of the punishments we received as a child—and even say we deserved them. However, if we had been allowed to learn from our mistakes […]
Christmas Toys: Overindulgence or an Opportunity for Effective Parenting
Christmas Toys: Overindulgence or an Opportunity for Effective Parenting Every Christmas, advertising creates a shortage for the latest toy rage. Remember the year it was Furbys? That was the “good old days, when a popular toy was less expensive. Now they are iPads, xBoxes, or iPhones—items that cost hundreds of dollars. And what do parents […]
Goal Setting with Children
Goal Setting with Children The following is an article I wrote for the Activity/Resource book that is part of the Five CD Positive Discipline Workshop: How to Become the Parent You Always Wanted to Be While Helping Empowering Your Children to Feel Capable, Confident, and Competent. It is long, and contains lots of helpful information. […]
Workshop Results
Workshop Results Success Letter from Workshop Participant Hi Jane, As far as I am concerned, the workshop is far from over! I’ve been reading all my books, Understanding Serenity, Positive Discipline for Teenagers, Positive Discipline A to Z, the main Positive Discipline Book.—as well as listening to your CDS. Your philosophy on living and parenting, your principles about living and parenting—your […]
Taming Temper Tantrums
Taming Temper Tantrums I was in a mall store with my son who was about 16-17 months old and was a pretty talented tantrum thrower. He didn’t have a problem walking around the mall; he just hated going into the actual stores; so I could count on him to get upset when we walked in. […]
Communicate with Kids about Drugs
Communicate with Kids about Drugs This will be a very long blog, because it includes a huge portion of Chapter Eight from the book, Positive Discipline for Parenting in Recovery by Lynn Lott, Riki Intner, and Jane Nelsen. Since we just did a podcast on this book, I thought you might find it helpful to have this section […]
Hitting and Spanking
Hitting and Spanking The most rewarding part of my work is hearing from people who have found it so encouraging in their lives. I just happened to be answering the Positive Discipline phones when Tiana called about an order. She shared how thrilled she was with Positive Discipline, so I encouraged her to take the workshop, […]
H. Stephen Glenn
H. Stephen Glenn H. Stephen Glenn was a brilliant, charismatic person who was dedicated to Developing Capable Young People by helping adults become more capable in their skills for working with children. At the end of this post, you’ll see a video sample from one of his online video program. I was one of those who […]
Encouragement
Encouragement Recently someone posted a discussion about a friend who is feeling discouraged about a son who keeps getting into trouble at a school that uses the colored card system. Every time he “misbehaves,” he gets a colored card and his parents are expected to punish him at home. I had to respond to this […]
