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18Aug

When your toddler says “no” you say “yes”

Posted by: Suzy Burger Categories: Behavior Parental Support Positive Parenting
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You have probably said your share of “no” before breakfast if you have a toddler (or any age child for that matter..) and you might be wanting to say that dreadful word less, but don’t know how.  You want to set limits, but you also want to parent in a positive way. Here’s a way […]

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Time in time out
14Jul

The Reality of Time In vs. Time Out

Posted by: Suzy Burger Categories: Behavior Parental Support Positive Parenting
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Parents: Let’s make a plan. If you have ever been on the internet, then you have heard that giving a time out is a horrible thing.  It is not. You have heard that connecting with your child during a fit or a tantrum is a better thing.  That is correct. So let’s make a plan: […]

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11Jun

Positive parenting isn’t permissive parenting

Posted by: Suzy Burger Categories: Behavior Positive Parenting
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A lot of families are turning to positive parenting these days because they want to leave the yelling, screaming and anger that can happen with parenting in the past. But what ends up sometimes happening with positive parenting is that the parents become permissive parents. Positive parenting is still strict parenting. It is loving parenting, […]

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social media
28May

How do we parent young children in this day with social media?

Posted by: Suzy Burger Categories: Positive Parenting Unplugging
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Right now I’m reading an interesting book (with a boring title), Parenting Well in a Media Age by Gloria DeGaetano.  It is stirring up so many thoughts and ideas about raising children in our day and age. First of all, things are very different now than they were just 30 years ago.  We are part […]

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Boulder Child Whisperer
13May

Have you given your little one a foot rub lately?

Posted by: Suzy Burger Categories: Behavior Positive Parenting Sleep
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Man oh man.  When was the last time you got a good foot rub?  Probably way too long ago.  Well, if you aren’t getting any good foot rubs, at least your little one should be. When my boys were babies, I really really wanted to take a massage for babies class.  I thought that it […]

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lost
2May

It’s not that you lost your s#%t, it is about how you can calm down

Posted by: Suzy Burger Categories: Behavior Positive Parenting
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Perhaps some people will disagree with me since learning to live a more mindful life is to not lose your stuff all the time (which is partially true), but if you have young children, I don’t know how you can get through a day without either you or them losing their s*$t. So in my life, it […]

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work
24Apr

Let them see you work!

Posted by: Suzy Burger Categories: Behavior Positive Parenting
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After years and years of parents not spending enough time with their children, we are seeing a backlash (only in certain cases) of parents not “working” in front of their children.   For many, many parents, this is not a problem as their children see them working all the time, but for some parents, they […]

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14Apr

Creating a mindful childhood in a busy world

Posted by: Suzy Burger Categories: Behavior Positive Parenting Unplugging
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If you are like me and have visited Pinterest for great parenting ideas, you have probably had the same impression I did, that children should be busy or entertained with activities pretty much all the time. Now, don’t get me wrong.  I love to have fun activities with my kids but I also think it […]

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