Mistaken Goals of Behavior:

Article from Jane Nelsen on “Breaking the Code” of your child’s behavior

Short video + article on the 4 mistaken goals of behavior from Redirecting Children’s Behavior 

Connection:

Special Time explained

3 Easy Ways to practice Connection before Correction

How to Raise Emotionally Intelligent Kids: 5 Secrets from Research

Empathy Opens the Door to Problem Solving + what makes it hard for parents to empathize

Modeling:

Don’t Back Talk Back: How parents unwittingly invite power struggles and defiance and what to do instead


Perspective:

I Thought My Child Was Being a Brat. So I treated her that way (oops).

Focus on Solutions:

Focus on Solutions blog and tool card from Positive Discipline

Struggling to Come Up with “the Right” Consequences? Try This!

10 Alternatives to Consequences from Dr. Laura Markham


Kind and Firm:

Blog and Tool Card from Positive Discipline

Article: Scripts to hold limits firmly but not sternly

Great example of K & F parenting from Kelly Bartlett, PD Trainer