Parent Connection

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How to Take a Parent Time-Out with Small Children Underfoot

One of the very best parenting tools is the parent time-out. When parents are feeling upset, angry or frustrated over a parenting issue - or over their children’s behavior - it can help to diffuse the situation if the parent removes themselves to get calm and centered, rather than force the isolation of their child into a child time-out. After the parent is calm, they are in a much better frame of mind to deal with the issue at hand and they’ve avoided saying and doing things they might regret later.

Managing Mom's Online Time

One of my worst parenting days was when I was still sitting at my computer in pajamas and my husband walked through the front door. I thought that he had forgotten his laptop at home again and returned to get it so that he could go back to work and get started on his day. When he didn’t seem to want to leave again, I realized that it was suppertime and that I had succumbed to spending the whole day in the black hole of the Internet and social media. Where had the time gone? My kids had spent the day at home watching movies and eating sugary cereal for breakfast, lunch and a snack.

Effective Communication

They come at you from left field! Just when you thought that everything was going smoothly, your daughter is in tears or screaming at you about something you can't understand - because she is screaming!