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Positive Discipline Tool Week 1: Connection before Correction
There is a secret formula to successful parenting and it is called Connection before Correction. It sounds wonderful right? Imagine a world where you and your children sit down to discuss and agree on the solution to a problem without tears, yelling, nagging or...
Why Positive Parenting is IMPORTANT in a Muslim Home
Asalam Alaykum Waramatullah Wabarakatuh Sis, You have heard this countless of times, Parenting is no easy feat. Becoming the perfect parent to the perfect child is the dream of all women. However, most of us feel being a parent involves either being a pushover who...
Positive Discipline Tool Week 22: Allowances
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...
Positive Discipline Tool Week 21: 3 Rs of Recovery
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. Parents are...
Positive Discipline Tool Week 20: Mistakes
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...
Positive Discipline Tool Week 19: Problem Solving
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...
Positive Discipline Tool Week 18: Logical Consequences
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...
Positive Discipline Tool Week 17: Focus on Solutions
If you are asked to list your top five shortcomings as a Mother, I am sure finding the right solutions to issues relating to your children will be one of them. Why? Well, our brain is wired to protect us from things we see or perceive as problems and not necessarily...