"He's Going To Take His Pound Of Flesh": When your child demands to "equalize" Challenging Behaviors, Cooperation, lessons from the trenchesClaire LernerJanuary 17, 2025
Positive Discomfort Part 2: Working with schools to help kids get through tasks and transitions Cooperation, Highly Sensitive Children, lessons from the trenches, Limit-Setting With Love, Parenting Mindshifts, Social/emotional dev, TransitionsClaire LernerJanuary 9, 2025children, challenges, social emotional development
Positive Discomfort: The stress of learning something new or facing a challenge is helpful, not harmful Highly Sensitive Children, Nurturing Problem-Solvers, Parenting Mindshifts, Positive Parenting, Social/emotional devClaire LernerDecember 21, 2024resilience, social emotional development, grit
The Limit is the Lesson Challenging Behaviors, lessons from the trenches, Positive Discipline, Positive ParentingClaire LernerNovember 22, 2024positive discipline, parenting, challenging behavior
The Cheat Sheet: Key Phrases and Strategies From The Trenches Positive Parenting, Positive Discipline, Limit-Setting With Love, lessons from the trenchesClaire LernerOctober 18, 2024
YOU DO IT!: When Your Child Demands You Do Things For Them That They Can Do Themselves Establishing Routines, Cooperation, lessons from the trenches, Positive Parenting, Social/emotional dev, TransitionsClaire LernerSeptember 17, 2024child development, cooperation, resilience
When Your Child Has A Pessimistic Outlook Social/emotional dev, Positive Parenting, Highly Sensitive ChildrenClaire LernerJuly 18, 2024
How The Lack of Limits Makes Life So Exhausting--For Parents and Kids Limit-Setting With LoveClaire LernerJune 26, 2024Positive parenting, limit setting, discipline
How The Obsession With Validating Feelings Is Failing Our Children (and resulting in less, not more, emotional regulation) Social/emotional dev, Positive Parenting, Parenting Mindshifts, Highly Sensitive ChildrenClaire LernerMay 29, 2024child development, Parenting
When Less Is So Much More In Supporting Your Big Reactor Highly Sensitive Children, Positive Parenting, Parenting MindshiftsClaire LernerMay 5, 2024big reactors, highly sensitive children, Positive parenting
The Trouble With Transitions: Why They Are So Hard For Some Kids And How To Help Highly Sensitive Children, Social/emotional dev, Cooperation, TransitionsClaire LernerApril 2, 2024transitions, child development, challenging behaviors
I DON’T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT!!!! When Your Child Resists Discussions about Difficult Incidents Social/emotional dev, Positive Parenting, Highly Sensitive ChildrenClaire LernerMarch 11, 2024
The "Have-To": A simple strategy to prevent power struggles Limit-Setting With Love, Positive DisciplineClaire LernerFebruary 15, 2024limit setting, children, Parenting, power struggles
Demand Avoidance: When Kids Vehemently And Consistently Resist Directions Challenging Behaviors, Decoding behavior, Highly Sensitive Children, Positive ParentingClaire LernerJanuary 9, 2024PDA, Demand Avoidance, Challenging child behaviors, Parenting
"This Is the WORST DAY EVER!" Highly Sensitive Children, Social/emotional devClaire LernerDecember 1, 2023children, highly sensitive children, child development, Positive parenting
When Kids Act Like Dictators Challenging Behaviors, Highly Sensitive Children, Positive ParentingClaire LernerOctober 29, 2023kids, demanding behavior, challenging behaviors
How To Support Vs. Enable Your Highly Sensitive Child Highly Sensitive Children, Social/emotional dev, Positive Parenting, Parenting MindshiftsClaire LernerSeptember 19, 2023highly sensitive children
You Are Not A Helicopter Parent. You Are Your Child's Emotional Support Parent Highly Sensitive Children, Parenting Mindshifts, Positive Parenting, Social/emotional devClaire LernerSeptember 12, 2023child development, parenting
How To Help Kids Navigate Social Challenges Positive Parenting, Social/emotional dev, Highly Sensitive ChildrenClaire LernerJuly 18, 2023social challenges