good parenting

Nicholeen Peck is a mother of four. Nicholeen did foster care for very difficult teens. She taught children with ADHD, OCD, kleptomania, compulsive lying, anger control issues, etc. She said, “I taught behaviors, not medication. They would come to us on many medications and usually leave not on any medications. Many children are misdiagnosed. They just need to learn cause and effect better.”

Posted by Nicholeen
On January 27, 2010
Filed under Mothers, Small Children, Using the Four Basics
Tags good parenting

parenting toddlers

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Hitting Toddlers - Parenting Advice

This is a copy of an email from Amiee Kieffer, author of http://momzoo.blogspot.com/
I thought it would be helpful to many others.

Nicholeen

Your parenting methods have really changed things around here. I could go on and on about it!

I am still at a loss on how to do this all with my 2 year old. He does well [...]

Posted by Nicholeen
On January 6, 2010
Filed under Question, Tips, Using the Four Basics
Tags Chores for Children

disagreeing appropriately

family children

how to get my kids to help out

not helping out

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Disobedient Children -They don’t want to help out - No Answers

Q: “My Older children like to use the “disagreeing Appropriately” in what I consider to be inappropriate ways. For instance if I give an instruction that they simply don’t feel like doing, they disagree appropriately. I find that I want to say “no, you can’t disagree appropriately” because, I don’t feel it is appropriate to [...]