by Bonnie Harris | Jul 9, 2024 | Coaching & Counseling, Confident Parents, Discipline, Everyday Parenting, Expectations, Teens
How do you think your kids experience you? Do they expect loving, positive attention and trust or criticism and judgement? Or no attention at all until they cause a problem? Watch yourself and see what they respond to. Whenever you yell, threaten, punish, or use that...
by Bonnie Harris | Jun 26, 2024 | Coaching & Counseling, Communication, Confident Parents, Discipline, Everyday Parenting, Expectations, Questions and Answers, tantrums
A Connective Parent asked about how toddlers learn self-control. Every parent needs real-life solutions to tantrums. Q. My two and a half year old is in the heart of his terrible twos with lots of tantrums especially when he’s had it by the end of the daycare week....
by Bonnie Harris | Jun 11, 2024 | Confident Parents, Expectations, Newsletter, School, Teens
As far as I can tell, most parents want their children to reach launch-age fully capable of conducting their lives with responsibility and respect. When they leave the safety of their nests with self-confidence, feeling competent and resilient, with the drive to...
by Bonnie Harris | May 8, 2024 | Anger Management, Anxiety, Bullying, Coaching & Counseling, Communication, Confident Parents, Everyday Parenting, Generational Trauma, Mental Health, Teens
Boundaries refer to the separation of responsibilities between me and my child. Limits refer to what behaviors I am ok with and what I am not. To have appropriate limits, it is essential to establish healthy boundaries. Your child’s thoughts, emotions and behavior are...
by Bonnie Harris | Feb 20, 2024 | Confident Parents, Expectations, Questions and Answers, Teens
Why DO kids lie? It’s pretty straightforward but anything but obvious. Here’s the break down on why kids lie and what you can do about it. Q. My eight-year-old daughter has taken to lying and I don’t know what to do. The other day I was driving her home...
by Bonnie Harris | Feb 6, 2024 | Confident Parents, Everyday living, Everyday Parenting, Expectations, Mental Health, Teens
As far as I can tell, most parents want to raise successful children to reach launch-age fully capable of conducting their lives with responsibility and respect. When they leave the safety of their nests feeling self-confident, competent, resilient, and have the drive...
