Helping children explore the consequences of their choices is much different from imposing consequences on them. Exploring invites the p...

Offering limited choices instead of making demands can be very effective. Children often respond to choices when they will not respond to ...

A Positive Discipline Tool Card Rudolf Dreikurs taught, “A child needs encouragement like a plant needs water.” In other words, encour...

When I was growing up, I didn’t know that anger is just a feeling. To me anger meant withdrawal of love. My mother didn’t tell me she was ...

A Positive Discipline Tool Card The Avoid Pampering tool card is a perfect follow-up to the tool card of Show Faith. When we avoid pamp...

When children are misbehaving, they are speaking to adults in code? A misbehaving child is a discouraged child.  The primary goal of all ...

A Positive Discipline Tool Card One of the biggest mistakes some parents and teachers make, when they decide to do Positive Discipline...

A Positive Discipline Tool Card Have you ever tried talking with your children only to be frustrated by one word, unenthusiastic, total...

"Jimmy, time to get up! C'mon, Jimmy, get up now! This is the last time I'm going to call you!" Sound familiar? Morn...

Try a silent (secret) signal. (Kids love the secret part—especially when they have helped create it.) Creating silent signals can be part ...

The  Positive Discipline Tool Card   of "Control Your Behavior" is sometimes easier said than done. Have you ever lost control ...

A foundation of Positive Discipline is to be kind and firm at the same time. Some parents are kind, but not firm. Others are firm, but n...

An excerpt from the book Positive Discipline by Dr. Jane Nelsen. Where did we ever get the crazy idea that to make children do better...

An Excerpt from Positive Discipline for Teenagers by Jane Nelsen and Lynn Lott. A friend asked me if Positive Discipline was a program to...

A Positive Discipline Tool Card The Jones family is very excited. They have just finished planning a day at the beach. Seven-year-old ...

Children under the age of three do not understand “no” in the way most parents think they do. (And a full understanding of “no” doesn’t o...

Are you trying to gain control over children or with children? Trying to gain control over children is hard. It takes constant effort. Yo...