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18 WAYS TO AVOID POWER STRUGGLES

2 ½ year-old Fears

2018 in Review

3 Easy Ways to Create Connection Before Correction in Parenting

3 ½-year-old Tantrums

4 Rs of Recovery From Mistakes

4.5 year old who talks back

52 Positive Discipline Parenting Tools in 52 Weeks

7 Easy Ways to Connect with Kids

7 Tips for a Happy, Successful School Year

7 Ways Busy Parents Can Help Their Children Feel Special

7-Year-Old and High Level of Frustration

8-Year-Old With Classroom Problems

A Family Meeting in China

A Heartwarming Positive Discipline Success Story

A History of Positive Discipline

A Misbehaving Child is a Discouraged Child

A Passion For Positive Discipline

A Positive Discipline School in Portland, OR

A Simple Strategy for Smoother Mornings and Evenings

ADD or Personality Difference?

ASK FOR HELP

Act Without Words - A Positive Discipline Tool Card

Act Without Words for Teachers

Adaptability and Mood Quality

After School with At Risk Children

Aggressive Preschooler

Aggressive Sibling

Aggressive Toddler

Agreements - A Positive Discipline Tool Card

Allowance

Allowances Can Teach the Life Skill of Money Management

Angry Children of Divorce

Angry, irritated, tone of voice

Another Hug Story

Another Hug Story - Podcast

Applying the Positive Discipline Principles

Avoid Pampering

Avoid Rewards in the Classroom

Avoiding Barriers

Avoiding Power Struggles in the Classroom

Back Talk

Back to School: Whose Job is It?

Backward Punishment

Become a Mistaken Goal Detective

Bedwetting

Behavior modification

Biting, Pinching and Scratching

Blended Family Adjustments

Boredom

Break the Code of Misbehavior

Bullying Siblings

Bullying on the Bus

Bus Behavior

CURIOSITY QUESTIONS

Can Discipline Nurture Children?

Caring

Certified Positive Discipline Associates

Child Alienating Friends

Child Discipline: To Punish or Not

Child Fighting With Friends

Child Misses Her Father

Child Runs and Explores While Shopping

Child Won't Leave When it is Time to Go

Child Won't Listen in Daycare

Child Won’t Eat Without Being Nagged

Children DO Better When They FEEL Better

Children Full of Life

Choosing Friends

Christmas Toys: Overindulgence or an Opportunity for Effective Parenting

Class 115

Class Meetings

Class Meetings Learning Curve

Class Meetings for Preschoolers

Class Meetings in Middle School

Classroom Jobs

Closet Listening

Communicate with Kids about Drugs

Complaints and Sandbags

Compliments Create a Positive Atmosphere in Homes and Classrooms

Computer Overuse

Connecting With the World

Connection Before Correction

Connection Before Correction

Connection Before Correction - A Positive Discipline Success Story

Connection Before Correction for Teachers

Contribution in the Classroom

Control Your Behavior

Control Your Behavior for Teachers

Control or Cooperation

Cries at Preschool

Curiosity Questions Conversational

Daycare Kids Refusing to Rest

Dealing With Impulsivity, Inability to Focus, and On-the-Go Hyperness of a 6-Yr-Old

Dealing With a Strong-Willed 3-Year-Old

Dealing With a Strong-Willed Child

Dealing with bullying behavior in a school setting

Decide What You Will Do

Decide What You Will Do For Teachers

Defiance: Where does it come from?

Demanding Child

Dethroned 5-year-old won't let baby nap

Different Parenting Styles

Discipline Without Yelling, Hitting, or Spanking

Discipline for Children of Different Ethnic Groups

Discipline in the Car

Disciplining 1st and 2nd graders in school

Disrespectful Behavior

Disrespectful Children

Disrespectful Teen

Divorce

Do you have any articles on School Code of Conduct?

Don’t Back-Talk Back: A Nanny Perspective

Don’t Backtalk Back

Empowering Vs. Enabling

Empowering Young Minds: Positive Discipline’s Wheel of Choice

Empowering vs Enabling Success Story

Encouragement

Encouragement vs Praise

Encouragement vs Praise for Teachers

Encouragement: What does it mean and how is it done?

Enthusiastic about their successes with Positive Discipline

Exhausted From Raising a Toddler

FOCUS ON SOLUTIONS

FRIEND OR PARENT

Family Chores

Family Meeting Gone Bad

Family Meetings

Family Meetings

Five-Year-Old Lying and Constantly in Trouble

Follow Through

Follow Through With Children

Follow Through in the Classroom

Fooling Around During Class Meetings

Forgetful

Forgetfulness: Irresponsible or Normal

Fostering an Attitude of Gratitude Through Family Meetings

Friends, Exclusion, and Name Calling - A Positive Discipline Approach

GOAL DISCLOSURE

Gemeinschaftsgefühl

Goal Setting with Children

Grandson Crying at Preschool

Gratitude - A Kids Tool Card Activity

Gratitude and Generosity

Greetings

Growing Capable Kids: Teaching Daily Life Skills with Joy using Positive Discipline in a Montessori Setting

H. Stephen Glenn

HOW IS POSITIVE DISCIPLINE DIFFERENT?

Happy New Year 2022

Have Faith in Students

Have Faith in Your Children

He hit me, so I had to hit him back.

Help! A Teenager Has Moved into My Child's Body!

Help! My Child is Stealing!

Helpful Hints For Empowering Vs. Enabling

Helping Children Cope with the Death of a Parent

Helping a 2 ½ year old like preschool

High Schools and Positive Discipline in the Classroom

Hitting A-Z and More

Hitting and Spanking

How Do You Motivate a Teen?

How Do You Motivate a Teen? Yes, It Is Possible!

How to Approach a Teacher Who Uses Punishment

Hugs to Create a Connection

Hugs: A Positive Discipline Tool Card

Humiliation in the classroom

I Can't Do It!

I Messages

I Need A Hug

I See It, I Want It, I Take It

I Was Punished, and I Turned Out Fine

I love you, AND the answer is, “No.”

Independent Intelligent Kindergartner

Instead of Saying No, Try

Interrupting

Involve Students in Creating Class Guidelines

Is Positive Discipline Permissive?

Is Something Tougher than Positive Discipline Needed?

Jared's Cool-Out Space - A Positive Time-Out Children's Book

Jobs: Why Teenagers Don't Do Chores And How To Use Follow-Through

Kind and Firm Parenting

Kind and Firm for Teachers

Kindness and Firmness at the Same Time

LOOKING FOR SOLUTIONS IN THE PRINCIPAL'S OFFICE

Lacking Self-Confidence

Laughter at Discipline

Lazy Child or Normal Child?

Let Them Help: ECE tool cards

Letter of Intent to become a Certified Positive Discipline Associate

Letting Go: Morning Hassles and Responsibility

Limit Screen Time

Limited Choices

Limited Choices Teacher Tool

Listen

Listening Skills for Teachers

Listening Tool Card

Logical Consequences

Logical Consequences and Avoiding Morning Hassles

Lying

MISTAKES ARE WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITIES TO LEARN

MORNING POWER STRUGGLES AGAIN

Mean, Disobedient Four-Year-Old

Messy Rooms

Misbehaving when we have company over

Mistaken Goal of Assumed Inadequacy

Mistakes are Opportunities to Learn

Modeling Control for your Children

Money as a Means of Discipline

Morning Hassles and Power Struggles

Morning Problems

Mouthy Preteen

Mutual Respect in the Classroom

My 13 year old daughter had a babysitting job last Saturday night.

My New Teacher

My Teenager Doesn’t Keep His Agreements

My son is beginning to call me stupid, hit me, and says he hates me.

My son keeps saying I don’t love him

NATURAL CONSEQUENCES

Nap Time Battles

Need Approval

New Certified Positive Discipline Trainer Candidate

New Positive Discipline Tools for Kids

No More Logical Consequences (at least hardly ever) Focus On Solutions

Old Class Question

One Word

Orderly Entry and Exit

Overcoming Bedtime Hassles

Overwhelmed Student Teacher

Parent-Teacher-Student Conferences

Parenting - The Positive Approach

Parenting Preschoolers

Parenting Teens: How Do You Know When Your Child Becomes a Teen?

Parenting and Teenagers

Pay Attention

Pay Attention and Wheel of Choice Adaptation

Pay Attention: A Nanny Perspective

Planting Seeds of Change Through Positive Discipline

Poor Hygiene

Positive Discipline Evidence Based

Positive Discipline Ezine

Positive Discipline Guidelines

Positive Discipline Online Class - Routine Charts

Positive Discipline Parenting Classes

Positive Discipline Success Story - "I Need Your Help"

Positive Discipline Tools and Tips for the Beginning, Middle or End of a Target Meltdown

Positive Discipline Workbook

Positive Discipline and the Wheel of Choice

Positive Discipline in Egypt

Positive Discipline in France

Positive Discipline in London, England

Positive Discipline in Middle and High Schools

Positive Effects of Class Meetings

Positive Time Out

Positive Time Out

Positive Time-Out

Positive Time-Out—You First

Potty Training

Power Struggles with a 3 ½ yr. old

Prefers One Parent over Another

Prepare the Group in Advance – Early Childhood Tool Card

Problem Solving

Problem Solving in the Classroom

Punishment or Discipline in Schools

Punishment or Not: The Debate Goes On and On and On

Pushing Younger Brother: Does Three-Year-Old Know Better?

Quest005

Question 081

Question 082

Question 088

Question 090

Question 107

Question 126

Question About Praise

Rebelling

Rebellion for being Punished

Refuses to Cooperate

Reward System in Preschool

Role Playing With Students

Routine Chart and Wheel of Choice Success Story

Routine Charts in China

Routines

Routines

Rude and Defiant

Rude to Grandparents

SCHEDULE SPECIAL TIME FOR CONNECTION

SILENT SIGNALS

Schedule Special Time With Your Students

School Discipline

Self Care for Teachers

Sense of Humor

Separation Anxiety

Setting Limits With Children

Sex Exploration

Sexual Acting Out and Behavior

Show Faith

Sibling Fights: Putting Kids in the Same Boat

Six Year Old Talks Too Much

Sleep Problems (Question in Spanish, Answer in English)

Small Steps

Son Prefers Cookies

Spanking Your Child

Spanking: Will the Debate Ever End?

Special Time With Your Teenager

Spend Special Time

Spousal Conflict in Front of Children

Step Parenting Blues

Step Parenting Blues

Steps For Winning Cooperation

Stories From a Second Grade Teacher

Strong Willed Child

Strong Willed or Age Appropriate?

Students Test Me

Switching from Negative to Positive Time Out

THE ART OF ACTIVE LISTENING

THE THREE Rs OF RECOVERY

Take Time for Training

Take Time for Training: A 3-Step Process

Taming Temper Tantrums

Tardy First Graders

Teach Children What to Do

Teach Students to Give and Receive Compliments

Teacher Punishes Whole Class

Teacher having a difficult time implementing Positive Discipline

Teachers Who Scream and Punish

Teaching Kids Emotional Regulation Skills

Teaching Positive Time Out Helps Students Learn Tools for Self-Regulation

Teaching Responsibility: When Does it Happen?

Teen Getting Poor Grades & Being Suspended

Teenager Lacking Motivation? Not Really!

Temper Tantrums Have Returned in My 4-year-old

Temper Tantrums—Intense in Public

The 10 Biggest Mistakes Parents Make

The Importance of Connection

The Positive Discipline Books

The Positive Discipline Journey

The Power of Eye Contact: A Simple Tool for Deep Connection with Young Children

The Power of Nonverbal Communication

The Power of a Hug: Some Success Stories

The Significant Seven

The Wheel of Choice

The Wicked Witch of the West

Things Often Get Worse Before They Get Better

Three-year-old Love/Hate Relationship with Baby Brother

Time Out for Children Under the Age of Reason

Toddler Demands Constant Attention

Toddler Tantrums Over Medication

Toddlers and the Hitting Stage

Tone of Voice

Trouble Controlling Chatter in Classroom

Twin Conflict

Understand the Brain Using the Palm of Your Hand

Understanding the Belief Behind the Behavior - A Positive Discipline Success Story

Understanding the Mistaken Goal of Revenge

Understanding the Mistaken Goal of Undue Attention

Using Candles to Deal with the Belief Behind the Behavior

Using Positive Discipline with Two Boys

VALIDATE FEELINGS - A Positive Discipline Tool Card

Validate Feelings Teacher Tool

Very Active 18-Month-Old

Weaning a Toddler

Weaning from the Pacifier

What Do You Want For Your Children?

What Does Your Child Under Three Really "Know" About "No"?

What Does a Positive Discipline Class Meeting Look Like?

What is Positive Discipline?

When Children Hit

When Parents (of Different Families) Don't Agree

When Parents Lose It

When Should Children be Responsible?

When are Children Old Enough to Participate in Family Meetings?

When is a Child Old Enough to Choose?

Whining

Workshop Results

You Can’t Give Your Children Self-Esteem