Posts Tagged: “learning from consequences”

Teaching Children and Adolescents Responsibility

December 10, 2018

Parents often ask me, “How do you teach your kids how to be responsible?” Responsibility is defined as the state of fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one’s power, control, or management. So how do we teach our kids to be responsible? The Perfect Life As parents we want our children to succeed and do well socially and academically. We want our children to never have to struggle too much, be uncomfortable, or be disappointed. We

Homework and Being Successful. Do they go hand in hand?

October 1, 2018

It’s that time of year again. Time to put up the bathing suites and get out the book bags. School is in session! For many parents this time can be a time of relief as they get their kids back into school and back on a routine. For other parents, this time can be stressful as they hustle to get everything ready for their kids to go back to school. Then there are other parents whose anxiety starts to build

What We Can Learn From the Post Office About Parenting

December 5, 2014

Has this ever happened to you or someone you know? Child: “Mom we need to go to the store tonight! My project is due tomorrow and I need a poster board and some construction paper!” Parent: “How long have you known about this project?” Child: “They told us two weeks ago, but I don’t see what that has to do with anything.” Parent: “You have known for two weeks and you just now tell me! I can’t take you tonight.

Loving Relationships Give Consequences Their Power

February 26, 2014

In the updated Love and Logic Parenting Class – Parenting the Love and Logic Way, Jim and Charles Fay share the following observation, “Our heart breaks every time we see someone falling into the ‘consequence trap.’ Well-meaning parents become ensnared in this trap when they believe that the solution to all of their problems involves finding bigger or better consequences.” They go on to explain, “Freeing oneself involves understanding that loving relationships give consequences their power. Releasing oneself means continuing

Is That Consequence Logical?

February 12, 2014

I hear of parents whose knee-jerk reaction to almost anything that their child does wrong is to take away their child’s cell-phone. “It’s the only thing they care about”, parents will tell me. “It’s the only thing that makes them do the thing I ask them to do!” Whether the misbehavior is talking back, refusing to do chores, allowing grades to slip, or being mean to a sibling, these parents whip out their one skill (the cell phone take away)

Building Self-Esteem In Kids

August 22, 2012

The following is a clip was taken from an interview with Shiloh Lundahl, LCSW, for the show Joy in Our Town . This show aired In August, 2012 on channel 21. Building Self-Esteem in Kids Shiloh Lundahl, LCSW teaches parenting classes in Mesa, Arizona. Please click here to learn more about the classes he teaches.

Letting kids fail in the short term can be hard for parents but great for kids

April 8, 2012

There we were, at WalMart on a Saturday afternoon. Eliza and her brother Ezra each had two weeks of allowance and they were trying to stretch it as far as possible (which isn’t easy since they only had four dollars each). I was working on my skill of patience as each of them pointed out the things that they wanted only to find out that the item cost more than they had. At one point I tried to explain the