Do you know that allowances can teach the life skill of money management? Imagine how your child’s life would be if you teach him/her the value of money from a young age. Providing allowances is a positive discipline tool we can use to teach our children many valuable...
Everybody makes mistakes and guess what? Mistakes are wonderful opportunities to learn. Growing up, most of us were told that adults don’t lie and adults don’t make mistakes. This is a fallacy most of us continue to believe even as adults and parents too....
What is your usual reaction when your child makes a mistake? Do you respond by showing disappointment, or shaming, or blaming or yelling? If you do, has this helped your child learn from the mistake? As adults, we understand the importance of learning from our...
We all know how easy it is to see solutions to the problems of others—then we have perspective, objectivity, and creative ideas. With our own problems we often become emotionally involved and lose all perspective and common sense. Imagine what it will be like to have...
Consequences, Consequences, Consequences, Consequences are obvious results of a situation. Consequences can either be natural or logical. Seriously though, how do you differentiate natural consequences from logical consequences? Firstly, logical consequences are not...
