Powerful Parenting Techniques
Posted in Parenting, teaching children on Mar 10th, 2010
Cynthia shared a comment in response to our “Disrespectful Behavior” episode in which she says, “When you talked about the tantrum that would predictably follow a consequence and giving the child time to resolve the problem, I love that and have used that. However, what would you do if the child will not disengage from [...]
Posted in Family, Parenting, raising children, teaching children on Feb 15th, 2010
Jamie was talking to Vicki recently and brought up a question about what to do with or about children who are being disrespectful and defiant.
Your authority as a parent is determined by two factors. First, you have to be able to set and enforce appropriate limits. Second, you have to be seen as a [...]
Posted in Family, Parenting, raising children on Nov 21st, 2009
In part 1 of this podcast we talked about how blended families come about when new “worlds” are created through death or divorce. This changes the context of parenting, primarily through the perception of an “escape hatch” which can be used by either the parents or the children.
Parents are equally yoked in pulling [...]
Posted in Family, Parenting, humor, raising children on Apr 7th, 2009
Tantrums are nothing more than inappropriate attention seeking. Although unpleasant, they are fairly quickly managed when you take away the pay-off for the child. In today’s call, Dr. Paul and Darren Johansen discuss this typical issue, along with a little brainstorming of various stage 1 and stage 2 consequences. This short video [...]
Posted in Family, Parenting, teaching children on Mar 3rd, 2009
A subscriber recently wrote, “Dr. Paul I love listening to your parental power calls. Every morning I have to tell my two school age children at least a hundred times eat, brush your teeth, get dressed and the list could go on and on. By the time they get out the door in the morning [...]
Posted in Family, Parenting, Psychology, raising children, teaching children on Nov 18th, 2008
In today’s Parental Power call, the team takes on the very basics of discipline, which has everything to do with learning. Reinforcement and punishment are defined as what will increase behavior versus what will decrease behavior respectively. Each of these has a positive and a negative form - this does not mean good [...]
Posted in Family, Parenting, Psychology, Spiritual Leadership, raising children, teaching children on Oct 14th, 2008
Two seasoned clinicians (Dr. Jason Adams, and Craig Rollo, LMFT) join Dr. Paul today to talk about defiance. Consistency is a real key in creating an environment at home that is more cooperative and peaceful. Parents are there to help their kids learn how to get what they want in appropriate ways. [...]
Posted in Family, raising children, teaching children on Aug 19th, 2008
Parents often get into some common traps that fall into a similar category that I’m going to call, “showing your hand.” In a card game, you don’t want the other players to see your hand, because that would tip them off as to how to play against you. In the same light, parents [...]
Posted in Family, Parenting, Psychology, Uncategorized, raising children on Apr 29th, 2008
Sometimes one of the most feared concepts in parenting - but absolutely essential to our role as parents. There is a difference between discipline and criticism. Consistency helps to turn parents into vending machines as opposed to slot machines in the eyes of our children. Create “way to go” and “way to [...]
