Articles related to "Assertive Parenting"

Parents who wish to use assertive parenting can acquire the skill. It can be learned and will create a more peaceful family environment, reducing aggressive behaviors.

Build self-esteem by positive feedback, clear directives, humor, showing faith in your child, correcting behaviors instead of the child, and learning from mistakes.

Parents can plan for their child's success in school. It requires organization, consistency, working with the school, use of community resources, and homework help.

Young people who have been raised in a reasonably fair and loving environment may find themselves totally unprepared for the "dice effect" of real life.

It's time to put that computer to use for learning by a training period, effective supervision, systems of earning timed reward activities, and clear expectations.

Halloween is a great time to discuss fear with children to help them understand fear, role-play scary situations, and gain confidence and skills in ways to handle fear.

It's time to reduce guilt, allow feelings, relax standards, invest in the soul, find lessons in the season, embrace tokenism, & include children in a giving experience.

Much is said about teens and societal problems. People can't help but wonder how things get that way. Time to stop and take a look at the training ground for teenage!

School phobia is helped by showing empathy, dealing honestly with negative feelings, clear structure about what is acceptable, and not making "sick days" too much fun.