They are your thoughts, and not necessarily the truth about the situation.

Kids thrive on enthusiastic, specific, and immediate feedback.

Since the goal of discipline is learning, discipline is not the same as punishment, which means “the infliction or imposition of a penalty as retribution for an offense.” There is a huge difference between discipline and punishment.

Okay, show me where you’re feeling stuck with this; let’s see if we can come up with some other ways of approaching this problem

ONE OF THE keys to creating positive change in our lives is not just knowing what to do, but in actually doing what we know.

Touch is life.

put it simply, how we respond depends on how we perceive.

This skill of perspective taking is enormously helpful to parents, who must interact daily with another being who sees the world in a (sometimes very) different way (see #8).

In this example, note the important, but subtle, distinction in saying “I believe you can do it” instead of “You can do