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Parenting

Positive Discipline: How to Guide Children's Behaviour Without Punishment

The word "discipline" comes from the Latin disciplina, meaning teaching or learning -- not punishment. This is an important distinction that gets lost...

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Emotions

What Emotional Coaching Means in a Family Setting

John Gottman's research on emotion coaching identified one of the most consequential parenting approaches of the modern era — and it involves no speci...

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Emotions

How Adults Help Children Name Their Feelings

"You seem really frustrated right now." Said quietly, in the moment, when a child is visibly struggling — that one small sentence is doing more develo...

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Parenting

Emotion Coaching: Helping Children Understand Their Feelings

The instinct when a child is distressed or angry is often to fix the problem quickly or shut the feeling down. "You're fine." "Stop crying." "Don't be...

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