View Article  Parenting Your Child Like a Super Nanny: Getting chores done

A comment I made in an earlier blog entry touched upon the importance of children doing chores, regardless of their age or circumstances. Jo Frost, TV's well known supernanny, is a great role model of a successful parent—she’s clear, consistent and usually calm.  She’s in control and not the children.  You want your parenting style to be like that of a super nanny, where your children are respectful, responsible and fun to be around, don’t you?  Or am I speaking to the wrong crowd!

 

Of course you do and one of the ways you can do this is by having your children do chores.  Why?  Because they are a member of a family and need to learn it is important to help out with family chores and duties.  If mom and dad wait on the kids all the time and don’t have the kids ...   more »

View Article  Parenting Styles: Bringing out the super nanny in you

Because parents have a deeply felt effect on their children’s emotional, social and mental growth, their parenting styles in dealing with discipline and problem solving can either help or hinder the development of respectful, responsible and fun to be around children.

 

I believe each parent has the ability to act like a super nanny with children; to become more consistent about setting limits, saying “no” and meaning it, and making children responsible for their choices, regardless of what that may look like.  How do you bring this super nanny part of you out more?

 

One way is to remember that your child (like You) has different parts.  No, I’m not talking about multiple personalities here.  Bear with me---look at yourself for example.  You probably have a sleeping part that loves to sleep in on the weekends.  You may have

Other parts such as:...   more »

View Article  Your Parenting Style: Clues about successful parenting

Well, I’m back to talk more about the brain stuff.  Remember the difference between the thinking part of the brain and the lizard part?  I talked about it 2 entries ago.

 

Every parent wants to feel successful; acting like a super nanny with his or her kids.  yet, every time you or anyone else becomes upset; raising your voice, getting hot under the collar and just plain angry, you are in the lizard part of your brain.  Have you ever seen a lizard sit down and have a rational, meaningful conversation?  Not!!  It’s in pure reactive mode when it becomes frightened.  No thinking, just survival, knee jerk reaction.  When you're in this place, you cannot be successful as a parent with your children.

 

Same thing happens to you , me and the ...   more »