Archive for December, 2011

Rewards

Good golly, there are a lot of opinions out there about punishing and rewarding kids. It’s so odd, because I can see the point of both sides of the spectrum.  On the one hand, you have the extreme of operant conditioning.  I have clicker trained animals in the past and I’ve been really happy with [...]

In which I’m not an expert

Mindful parenting and mindfulness of pain are two heavily studied applications of mindfulness meditation and philosophy.  Books have been written, research studies performed and many a dry, impenetrable paper published on both of these subjects. I’ve been struggling to learn both on the fly.  No PhD.  No expert.  Just me and my one year’s worth [...]