Parenting Teens with Love and Logic: Preparing Adolescents for Responsible Adulthood, by Foster Cline and Jim Fay: This book offers guidance for parents who want to foster adolescent growth and high self-esteem in a positive way by gently helping their teens learn on their own how to make heal...
The love-and-logic model for parenting and teaching is extremely popular, particularly among educators. Cline and Fay are master storytellers and they bring home the lesson that parents need to give children increasing responsibility and stand by them (but not in for them) with empathy when they...
Little Hearts/Gentle Parenting Resources, and Editor-in-Chief of Holistic Parenting Magazine. Books by L.R.Knost includeWhispers Through Time: Communication Through the Ages and Stages of Childhood;Two Thousand Kisses a Day: Gentle Parenting Through the Ages ...
Nature’s classroom: Why preschoolers need more time outdoors –I think people of any age can use more time outdoors. @EdSource It’s Not Too Late to Read That Entire Book With Your Students. Full books are particularly effective at fostering empathy in readers and students may miss out on...
(i.e. If I hit, I will get in trouble. Therefore I will not hit.) and that they are choosing to disobey. The fact is that the prefrontal cortex, where reasoning, logic, and forethought take place, is highly immature in toddlers and preschoolers and actually doesn’t develop fully ...
(i.e. If I hit, I will get in trouble. Therefore I will not hit.) and that they are choosing to disobey. The fact is that the prefrontal cortex, where reasoning, logic, and forethought take place, is highly immature in toddlers and preschoolers and actually doesn’t develop fully ...
olds, it was that they have a tremendous capacity for unreasonable behavior, even given the most patient explanations. Although Ted and his daughter were close, by their very nature preschoolers do not take kindly to the limits adults set, no matter how reasonable and necessary these limits are...
Remember that many toddlers and preschoolers are poised for an early nap and an early (6:30 to 7:30 PM) bedtime – sometimes we just miss the window! Watch out for TV and other media exposure Many normal, health co-sleeping children do not sleep a 7 to 9 hour stretch until they are...
First-stage parenting is babies and preschoolers B the incredibly formative time when children acquire 80 percent of their cognitive abilities and need an incredible amount of parenting attention. Second-stage parenting is the elementary school years B sometimes the least 42 turbulent and worrying ...
Toddlers and preschoolers are still in the early stages of learning to communicate verbally. Add to that the fact that they have little-to-no impulse control and very immature social skills, and you’ve got a recipe for an instinctive physical response (i.e. hitting, kicking, biting, hair ...