Eye Contact and Listening – Rethinking Our Demands on Children

If you are a parent, at some point, this word will fall out of your mouth at some point: “Listen!” We believe as parents, if we explained better or if our children listened better, so many problems may never start.  And as adults, we place an incredible amount of importance on eye contact as proof … Read moreEye Contact and Listening – Rethinking Our Demands on Children

Beginning Positive Parenting

If you look in parenting groups, playgrounds, and twitter feeds, parenting is portrayed as a phase of life to survive or a time when people who live together seem to shuffle agony around and around until everyone is slamming doors, complaining about screen time, and tearfully looking for a shoulder to cry on. And that … Read moreBeginning Positive Parenting