From the category archives:
One day when I picked Julian up from preschool, he was grinning from ear to ear and in a great mood. When we got into the car, he couldn’t wait to tell me about his day: “In Spanish class, I got to be the Poonish Man”, he said. “The Poonish Man?”, I asked. “Yes” he [...]
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People warn you about the terrible twos. I tell them two is nothing…wait until you get to three. Maybe it is a case of each child being different or maybe it is a result of how we parent our children. But for me, at age two, a diaper, a breast, a baby carrier, redirection, toys, [...]
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This is a guest post by Paige from Baby Dust Diaries who is trying to get the word out about an upcoming blog carnival she is hosting. Only a third (33%) of parents think it’s a realistic possibility to raise well-behaved children by relying solely on positive reinforcement and teaching by example. Far more – [...]
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We all know that children very frequently want to do things that their parents don’t want them to do. But when mom or dad says “no,” what makes kids likely to listen and what makes them likely to disobey? A new study used child characters in role-playing situations and asked children aged four to seven [...]
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I’m taking a little bloggy vacation this week and letting you all be entertained by some of my favourite bloggers. This is a post by fellow Canadian blogger Amber from Strocel.com. She is the Queen of commenting on other people’s blogs, so please show her some comment love here and on her blog. Before I [...]
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Sometimes life just doesn’t leave a lot of time for blogging. As has been the case in the past, I just don’t have the time right now to dedicate to all of the fabulously interesting and insightful things I would like to write. In all seriousness, I do have a few things planned that I [...]
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Apparently April 30 is Spank Out Day USA. It was initiated in 1998 to give widespread attention to the need to end corporal punishment of children and to promote non-violent ways of teaching children appropriate behavior. As my contribution, I offer up these two posts: Best anti-spanking resources: A summary of and link to some [...]
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For my first blog post of the New Year, I have decided to give back to my followers. I asked on twitter for people to send me links to their underappreciated posts from 2008. Things that they wrote that didn’t get the exposure or recognition that they deserved. I am using this post to give [...]
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IComLeavWe: Day 6
by phdinparenting on November 26, 2009
It is the second to last day of IComLeavWe on speed. As I make my way through over 100 blogs this week, reconnecting and leaving comments, I hope to feature a couple of posts each day and also list the posts that I commented on. Featured post – Do you parent differently in public? How [...]
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