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...
Positive Discipline Tool Week 16: Follow Through
Do you sometimes feel like your child has some sort of upper hand? They probably do and this might be because you do not follow through. Whatever your child's age, it's important to be consistent when it comes to discipline. If parents don't stick to the rules and...
Positive Discipline Tool Week 15: Agreements
Does this sound familiar? You will reach an agreement with your children but when it is time, they will forget to do what they have agreed to. Now, that can be rather frustrating for parents. Wouldn't it be great if children always honour agreements made with their...
Positive Discipline Tool Week 14: Small Steps
As parents, some of the best gifts we can give our children is one of capability, self-reliance and self-confidence. We often have huge expectations of our children, but we often sabotage them with pampering. The most successful people in life have skills that they...
Positive Discipline Tool Week 13: Teach Children What to Do
Do you know that little children do not understand things the way you do? Your child may know that she will get an angry reaction from you when she does something, but do you know that she is yet to fully grasp the concept of yes/no? Children under the age of three do...