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These 3 reasons will help you understand what's REALLY going on in your child's brain when he or she is having a tantrum. Understanding these 3 reasons is the first step to reducing your child's tantrums. These 3 reasons apply to toddler tantrums as well as tantrums for older children.

What if teachers & parents used common tools and language for problem solving? My interview with Kelly Gfroerer, co-author of Positive Discipline Teacher Tools & Executive Director of the Positive Discipline Association

If you have just yelled at your child, you're probably feeling bad about it. This pep talk will coach you in some tools to use to recover from your mistake and forgive yourself. This talk also includes some tools to use to prevent yelling at your child in the future.

Once you understand WHY you're yelling, you are taking the first step to changing that habit. This video will help you see the problem of yelling with fresh eyes and narrow down the cause of your yelling to three simple reasons. After you identify your personal reasons for yelling, then you can decide on an action plan that will address the reasons.

How to Get Kids to Listen with Two Simple Tools Parents, do you want your kids to start listening when you talk? Stop saying "don't . . . " and get better results by using these two ways of talking to kids. Positive Discipline Lead Trainer, Kelly Pfeiffer offers two helpful strategies to use instead of saying, "Don't, stop, uh uh and no."

Empathy: Think, Feel, Say, Do

When parents start using new parenting tools, it may look like the new positive parenting tool isn't working. A child's behavior may actually get worse before it gets better. Parents often give up on using new positive discipline tools because they don't see immediate results. Positive Discipline Lead Trainer, Kelly Pfeiffer explains important information that parents need to consider when trying new tools.

It was a wonderful experience to interview Jane Nelsen, author of Positive Discipline for the "Positive Discipline Book Study & Interview Series."

The Positive Discipline Book Study & Interview Series is a year long event for 2017. Parents, counselors, teachers and others who enroll in this event will r...

Are You Stuck in the Consequences Trap? When your child misbehaves, do you issue consequences only to see no change in behavior? How can parents help kids actually change behavior? There’s a more simple idea, but requires that parents make a big shift in how we view the idea of “discipline.”

Kelly Pfeiffer, Positive Discipline Lead Trainer offer 7 parenting strategies for parent to use when kids yell. These 7 tools help parents "respond" rather t...

6 Obstacles to Peaceful, Positive Parenting (and how to get around them) A FREE PARENTING WITH POSITIVE DISCIPLINE INTRODUCTORY TELECLASS Date: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 from 11 am – 12 pm PST I noticed these six obstacles after observing patterns in the parents I work with and also in myself. Some of the obstacles are obvious, and some are not. What’s more, the obvious ones tend to be easy ... Read More

What is piggybacking and why parents need to stop

Early bird enrollment lasts through Jan 15. This is a bargain for this year long Positive Discipline Book Study & Interview Series