POSITIVE PARENTHOOD

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 have built in straw...

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

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 and again to never ...

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 straight to Target to pi...

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 signature, 12-week ...

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

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, and why parental calm...

Look, parenting is hard. Sometimes we experience a gap between how we want to parent and our actual lived experience of parenting. It happens to me when I ge...

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, she's slept soundly ...

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 twin was never really...

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

​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 and enthusiastic zoo...

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

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

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

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 horizon. And so when my to...

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 line, or after school...

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 hates her car seat. ...

Praising children frequently can feel awkward, especially if you don’t have experience telling others, very frequently, what they are doing well. Most of us ...

Offering positive touch- in a way that works for your individual child- is an important part of giving praise. Consider times when you've done exceptionally w...