by Bonnie Harris | Mar 29, 2019 | Anger Management, Coaching & Counseling, Questions and Answers, tantrums
Being Your Child’s Friend and Parent Q. I do welcome your advice and think you speak a lot of sense, but I am not sure about your advice to be your child’s friend in one of your articles. What is wrong with being a mum? I am the only person who can officially be...
by Bonnie Harris | Jun 9, 2018 | Anger Management, Communication, Discipline, tantrums
Parents who want to leave the reward and punishment methods behind often have a hard time letting go fully and embracing a truly connective relationship with their children. When my child won’t do what has to be done, I have to draw the line, don’t I? I try to be...
by Bonnie Harris | Apr 13, 2018 | Anger Management, Anxiety, tantrums
We all say and do things we don’t mean. How many times have you screamed or slammed a door or hit a child and moments later regretted it. You knew better, right? So how come you didn’t do what you wished you had in the moment? Because your fears and assumptions got...
by Bonnie Harris | Jan 20, 2018 | Communication, Preschool, Questions and Answers, School, Siblings, tantrums
Sharing and Hogging Q. My three-year-old has a very big issue with sharing and hogging. She has an 18 mo. old sister who is not allowed to touch anything. I understand that my daughter still is having a hard time with her arrival, she has to share me, she...
by Bonnie Harris | Sep 3, 2016 | Communication, Everyday Parenting, tantrums
Do you have a bossy child? One who tells others what to do, how to play the game, what to say? A child who throws a fit if things don’t go her way? “Bossy” is a word that gets our dander up. “Bossy” typically translates for a frustrated parent as mean, rude,...
by Bonnie Harris | Nov 4, 2015 | Anger Management, Communication, Discipline, Everyday Parenting, tantrums
Whenever I talk to parents about ending the use of rewards and punishments, I hear, “But doesn’t my child have to experience a consequence for her behavior?” Sounds logical; sounds appropriate. The problem is most parents don’t allow the kinds of consequences that...
