by Yogi Patel – Certified Positive Discipline Trainer, Montessori Guide, and Trainer for Empowering People in the Workplace In the symphony of parenting and teaching, the melody of empowerment plays a crucial role. Dr. Maria Montessori’s wisdom guides us: “The secret of good teaching is to regard the child’s intelligence as a fertile field in which […]
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Empowering Vs. Enabling
empowering-vs-enabling.jpg We have become vividly aware of how skilled most of us are at being enabling with our children, and how unskilled we are at being empowering. Our definition of enabling is, ʺGetting between young people and life experiences to minimize the consequences of their choices.ʺ Enabling Includes: DOING TOO MUCH FOR THEM: Doing things for kids […]
Kindness and Firmness at the Same Time
by Dr. Jane Nelsen Rudolf Dreikurs taught the importance of being both kind and firm in our relations with children. Kindness is important in order to show respect for the child. Firmness is important in order to show respect for ourselves and for the needs of the situation. Authoritarian methods usually lack kindness. Permissive methods […]
The Positive Discipline Books
by Dr. Jane Nelsen I received an email from a person who wondered about the differences between the many Positive Discipline books. My guess is that many people have the same question so I created this very brief thumbnail description. pd-books.jpeg There is some overlap in all the Positive Discipline materials, but each book has […]
Mutual Respect in the Classroom
An excerpt from Positive Discipline by Dr. Jane Nelsen Mutual respect incorporates attitudes of: (1) faith in the abilities of yourself and others; (2) interest in the point of view of others as well as your own; and (3) willingness to take responsibility and ownership for your own contribution to the problem. The best way […]
Positive Discipline Success Story – "I Need Your Help"
The following is a success story. ineedyourhelp.jpg So, my 2 year old (25.5 months old) has been giving me such a rough time with diaper changes. She has always been wiggly, even as a baby, and we do cloth diapers so it takes that much longer to get them on her… Lately it has been […]
Class Meetings
Class meetings invite students to learn by doing. They provide the practice arena for all of the skills necessary to grow citizens who are responsible, respectful and resourceful members of the community. The Positive Discipline vision is about schools where children never experience humiliation when they fail but instead feel empowered by the opportunity to […]
Take Time for Training
Many people are having fun applying the principles from the Positive Discipline Tool Cards. When they share their great examples, I ask for their permission to share with others. Take Time for Training I applied a few Take Time for Training strategies today during “room cleaning” day. In the past my procedure was as follows: […]
Take Time for Training: A 3-Step Process
by Dr. Kelly Gfroerer and Dr. Jane Nelsen, authors of Positive Discipline Tools for Teachers Book and the Positive Discipline Teacher Tool Cards When I was an elementary school counselor and first tried to get students involved in class meetings, we were not successful. I thought the students just weren’t ready; but it was me who wasn’t ready. […]
Toddlers and the Hitting Stage
Question: I have a 14-month-old son and recently bought your book Positive Discipline, The First Three Years as he began to really start to show his little personality and I realized wow, I need help! I finished it tonight but still have a question and really wanted your opinion about the issue of hitting. Our son, […]