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Is Your Child’s Heart in Safe Keeping?
Has parenting become a competitive sport? Are we now more concerned with having the best-behaved, best sleeping, fastest reading, most accomplished, and most obedient child, or are we concerned with one of a parent’s most important duties –...
A Happier Parenting Mindset
Most of us had parents who operated from a fear-based mindset. As a result, we may have naturally adopted that mindset as our own, and that negative or fear-based mindset could be what we are operating from each day, affecting every...
The Link Between Environment and Behavior
“When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don’t blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with...
What to Do with a Defiant Toddler
We say, “Don’t do that,” and they do it anyway. We say, “Stop” and they continue. We say, “Pick that up” and they do so just to throw it back down again. It looks a lot like defiance, so parents often feel like this is the time to start punishing...
Positive Parenting in Practice Session Three – Mindshifts
This is a free series brought to you by Rebecca Eanes and Jolette Jai, founder of The Jai Institute for Parenting. Each week, we will be discussing new topics on how to practice positive parenting so you can build relationships, strengthen...
Positive Parenting in Practice Session Two – How Our Stories Affect Our Parenting
This is a free series brought to you by Rebecca Eanes and Jolette Jai, founder of The Jai Institute for Parenting. Each week, we will be discussing new topics on how to practice positive parenting so you can build relationships, strengthen...
Positive Parenting in Practice Series – Session One – Discipline Yourself First
Welcome to the 10-WEEK POSITIVE PARENTING IN PRACTICE SERIES!? This is a free series brought to you by Rebecca Eanes and Jolette Jai, founder of The Jai Institute for Parenting. Each week, we will be discussing new topics on how to practice...
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Behavior is Communication
When my firstborn son was three, he began acting defiant and out of sorts. What I saw then as a call for discipline I soon learned was a call for connection. He was telling me, through his actions, that he was feeling bad inside. More...
Your Child’s Behavior is Communication – Are You Listening?
When my firstborn son was three, he began acting defiant and out of sorts. What I saw then as a call for discipline I soon learned was a call for connection. He was telling me, through his actions, that he was feeling bad inside...
I Am My Child’s Friend – Here’s Why
You’ve undoubtedly seen the memes that circle around social media. “I’m your parent not your friend” they say, and thousands of parents give their approving thumbs up. It’s also become a popular hashtag. Another thing I’ve seen around the web are...