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November 16, 2017

There’s Only One Method I’ve Discovered That Gets Kids To Listen The First Time Almost Every Time.

Parenting often feels like hostage negotiation with drunken, bipolar pirates. When our kids run amok, many of us parents resort to either just giving in to their mutiny, or by bombing them with rage-driven cannon balls. But there is a much better way. As far as I know it is the only way to bring…

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Tag: boundaries-rules, discipline, enlisting-co-operation, misbehaviour
August 19, 2017

6 Ways To Herd Halflings

Parent, here’s how to save kilowatts of energy and sand dunes of sanity as you more skillfully guide your kids’ daily behaviours, attitudes and cooperation. I’m thinking of getting them to… climb out of bed, get dressed, wear underpants, eat their breakfast, take their bag, climb in the car, get off the jungle gym, change…

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July 28, 2017

12 Tried-and-Tested Skills to Get Your Kids to WANT to Do What You Say

Want to know how to get your kids to want to listen to you? Not just because they’ve got to, but because they get to? In this post I will share the 12 skills you need to do so. But a disclaimer is in order: just because Julie and I know this list does not…

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Tag: enlisting-co-operation
June 7, 2017

The 3 Crucial Modes of Parenting: Which Is Missing In The Way You Parent?

There are 3 paramount modes of parenting: being a Pants-wearer, a Pied Piper and a Pal. Like a 3-legged chair needs all 3 legs, so we need all 3 aspects in the way we parent our kids. Before I explain these terms, let me tell you how I came to understand these 3 modes. It…

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Tag: authority, enlisting-co-operation
March 22, 2016

4 Tools That Can Spectacularly Improve Your Kids’ Cooperation (And Your Sanity)

Not just dads, but moms too, need plenty of tools in their parenting toolbox. With the right tools, things click more easily into place. Coercion is not needed. Nothing can drive us parents more insane than when, hour after hour, our kids don’t do the things we’re telling them to do or not do. For…

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Tag: enlisting-co-operation, patience, pep-talks, role-plays

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