POSITIVE PARENTHOOD

The email brought me to my knees simply read: I’d like to organize a zoom graduation. My eyes filled. My heart clutched. At first I quiet...

Mama, she whispered. Mama, I want to facetime gramma. Mama, can I put your password in? I was asleep, and my little one nudged the side o...

We are visiting my in-laws in Mexico. There are many different cups for my children to drink juice and water from, but there are two that...

Let's be real- sometimes the hardest part of parenting is your co-parent. When you're working with the Positive Parenthood approach, it c...

My parents used to put me in time-out in a wooden chair backed up to the kitchen wall, with a watch to use as a timer. I have vowed again...

I said nothing but YES to my children for 24 hours. Though others warned me this would spoil them and cautioned me they’d want to go stra...

You know song by The Shirelles that kicks off with "mama said, mama said"? I've finally found my Buddha phrase. Two years into taking the...

This afternoon, I watched my five year old niece swing her two braided pigtails behind her and furrow her eyebrows so that they nearly to...

I am going to tell you a little story, and it is going to help you understand why co-regulation is at the heart of Positive Parenthood, a...

Look, parenting is hard. Sometimes we experience a gap between how we want to parent and our actual lived experience of parenting. It hap...

This is our response for a very sleepless mama, who writes... My almost-2 year old used to sleep through the night. For over a year now, ...

It went down like this: one twin was pretty into it and excited until we walked through the door and I made motions to leave; the other tw...

At Positive Parenthood, we have eight principles for creating Rules That Work. We are going to share the first three here, and applying t...

​Here’s how it went down: My almost three year old twins were wreaking havoc. I could not understand why they were not tired from a long ...

You know what summer camps really got right? Melodic intonation. At summer camp, everyone sings. There are breakfast songs and lunch song...

Lots of research suggests that if possible, parents should keep little eyes away from screens. At the very least, most studies show that ...

📷Before I had children, I imagined our Sunday mornings would be like this: sunshine streaming through the windows, we’d be flipping panc...

I'd barely slept the night before, because the baby was up and down, up and down, up and down. And I had a big work project on the horizo...

We all know how hard it is to stay calm when your child is having a tantrum because soccer practice is over (or in the grocery checkout l...

Picture this: Seven year old comes in from school. He’s hot. His baby sister has been crying the whole ride home from school because she ...