by Bonnie Harris | Mar 25, 2025 | Anger Management, Communication, Empathy, Everyday Parenting, Expectations, Generational Trauma, Mental Health, Teens
No matter how hard we try to parent without shame, there will be moments when we react in ways we regret. Maybe we snap at our child for making a mess, call them “selfish” when they refuse to share, or roll our eyes when they ask a question for the hundredth time (I...
by Bonnie Harris | Mar 6, 2025 | Everyday Parenting
Shame is one of the most powerful emotions a child can experience, yet it often goes unnoticed in the way we parent. It hides behind tantrums, defiance, withdrawal, and even dishonesty. When children feel shame, they don’t just feel bad about what they’ve done—they...
by Bonnie Harris | Sep 17, 2024 | Coaching & Counseling, Communication, Confident Parents, education, Everyday Parenting, Expectations, Questions and Answers
You know that stage-when your child thinks using “potty talk” is just too fun and funny to stop. But, what motivates this “rude” behavior? Q: We have a boy 4 turning 5 next month, and we really have a lot of toilet talk going on. We’ve tried...
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....
