We tried swim lessons at three other places before settling on the British Swim School. The small classes, excellent teachers and emphasis on learning safety before swim stroke technique really sold me. Plus, the teachers, unlike all the others to date, were adept at working with my kids’ fear when it reared its ugly head. [...]
Archive for the ‘Discipline’ Category
In which my daughter starts to drown on the 10th anniversary of my dad’s death
February 22nd, 2012
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Rewards
December 16th, 2011
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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 [...]
Do 4-year-olds have pause buttons?
November 21st, 2011
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So I’ve been trying S.T.O.P for a few days now. It’s actually going pretty well. Sometimes I don’t even need to have the child sit down; often times a question or observation fixes the problem (“Hmm, that’s seems like a yucky attitude to me. What do you think it would be like in our family [...]
S.T.O.P.
November 14th, 2011
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Well, I might (MIGHT) be making progress in my discipline journey. I did some Google searches on time out alternatives. I did some thinking. I did some meditating. I read Jane Nelsen’s book called Positive Time-Out: And Over 50 Ways to Avoid Power Struggles in the Home and the Classroom. I didn’t agree with a [...]
Trial and error
November 9th, 2011
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So my trial and error with discipline last night was mainly error. I gave both girls one sheet of those plastic air pillows companies throw in boxes to pad the box. Cricket hoarded it, Buzzy Bee got upset. I asked nicely for her to share three times. She got more ragey each time I asked. [...]
Discipline Transition (Or: Off Into the Unknown)
November 8th, 2011
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Discipline…now there is a loaded topic. I’m not sure I know where to begin. I guess I’ll start with time outs. My husband and I have used time outs since our girls turned two. It took some doing, but it caught on with Cricket and Buzzy Bee in that it helped point out to them [...]
