Category Archives: Parents

Lynn Lott and I have been overwhelmed (in a good way), and excited about the spread of our Teaching Parenting the Positive Discipline Way DVD Training. It has now been purchased in 50 countries. We were delighted to receive these photos from a group of women in Egypt practicing the experiential activities to receive their […]

Question: My sixteen year old son, Sean, is dating a fifteen year old girl, Rachel. She was caught sneaking out of her house in the middle of the night to go to a party with my son and she was caught drunk one night. Her mother’s response to this was to severely limit the amount […]

I have the privilege of sharing another story from China, as told by Elly Zhen. Two years ago, when I started studying on Positive Discipline routine chart, I loved the idea. It took me two years to learn about the mistakes I made during my first attempt. I told my back-then 3.5-year-old baby girl about […]

A Family Meeting in China (shared with permission)   I am Wendy Li, my Chinese name is Li Tao, I come from Chengdu. After learning Positive Discipline, I’ve become a better mom, and a better self. This picture shows my four-year-old daughter carefully taking notes during our first family meeting. Of cause she didn’t know […]

by Isabelle Belles (Certified Positive Discipline Parent Educator) My husband, my then two year-old son, and I moved from Madrid, Spain to Chicago in 2008 because of my husband’s job. I was working at that time for a consulting company as a full-time manager. Even when I had my son, I had never considered stopping working, […]

Why is it so much easier to “enable” than to empower? Enabling is adult behavior that puts the parent between the child and life experiences to minimize the consequences of the child’s choices. Enabling includes rescuing, over-protecting, and controlling without involving the child in problem solving. Enabling behavior encourages an unhealthy dependence in children and […]

Success Story I want to share an encouraging moment from recent life: Our week started with a particularly upsetting episode for my 3 1/2 year-old daughter. She was at preschool and apparently came down with a spontaneous case of the rota-virus that is spreading around the school like wildfire. She had an accident which required […]

We had just finished Vicki Dolan’s Positive Discipline class at Children’s Playroom in the morning.  Most of it was review, but I picked up a few bits of information and one of the things I wrote down was “connection before correction.” I haven’t tried to implement that particular tool very often, but I had the […]