Peace and Parenting: How to Parent without Punishments

I believe every child needs to be a good decision-maker, but they can't become good decision-makers if they don’t have decisions to make. While giving advice may seem like good parenting, I think it actually hinders children's ability to learn from their mistakes. Instead, I suggest we listen to our little ones first and use some probing questions to help them make their own decisions. With the right approach, children can learn to help themselves and bounce back from their failures with ease.Enjoy today’s episode? Please share it with a fellow parent or leave a rating and a review.Follow Peace and Parenting:Instagram: @peaceandparentingFacebook: @peaceandparentinglaPeace and Parenting Facebook GroupApple PodcastsSpotifyAmazon MusicInterested in learning how to balance parenting and technology? Join my Plugged in Parenting seminar on April 29-30: https://peaceandparentingla.com/event-understanding-kids-technologyOur Sponsors:* Check out Blueland: https://blueland.com/peace* Check out Happy Mammoth and use my code PEACE for a great deal: https://happymammoth.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

If you’ve recently started on this connected parenting journey sometimes it's hard to know if you’re getting any results. Many of my clients are concerned that their kids are still misbehaving, and still fighting with each other, and still throwing tantrums. But that’s not how we measure your parenting, we measure by way of how YOU are feeling, whether you are calmer and more in control. Just because we change doesn’t mean our kids will change, it takes them a while.Enjoy today’s episode? Please share it with a fellow parent or leave a rating and a review.Follow Peace and Parenting:Instagram: @peaceandparentingFacebook: @peaceandparentinglaPeace and Parenting Facebook GroupApple PodcastsSpotifyAmazon MusicInterested in learning how to balance parenting and technology? Join my Plugged in Parenting seminar on April 29-30: https://peaceandparentingla.com/event-understanding-kids-technologyOur Sponsors:* Check out Blueland: https://blueland.com/peace* Check out Happy Mammoth and use my code PEACE for a great deal: https://happymammoth.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In the early days of my parenting journey, I was all about activities and productivity, I wanted to get things done! I tried to fix my own childhood through my motherhood. I was providing everything for these kids, home-cooked meals, extracurricular activities, play dates, and structure but I was missing one big thing. And when I discovered it, everything changed.Enjoy today’s episode? Please share it with a fellow parent or leave a rating and a review.Follow Peace and Parenting:Instagram: @peaceandparentingFacebook: @peaceandparentinglaPeace and Parenting Facebook GroupApple PodcastsSpotifyAmazon MusicInterested in learning how to balance parenting and technology? Join my Plugged in Parenting seminar on April 29-30: https://peaceandparentingla.com/event-understanding-kids-technologyOur Sponsors:* Check out Blueland: https://blueland.com/peace* Check out Happy Mammoth and use my code PEACE for a great deal: https://happymammoth.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Are you tired of asking your kids to do something and being met with resistance, complaining, and pushback? Today I want to share with you why this is happening and how cooperation comes when we first work on creating a strong bond with our kids.Enjoy today’s episode? Please share it with a fellow parent or leave a rating and a review.Follow Peace and Parenting:Instagram: @peaceandparentingFacebook: @peaceandparentinglaPeace and Parenting Facebook GroupApple PodcastsSpotifyAmazon MusicInterested in learning how to balance parenting and technology? Join my Plugged in Parenting seminar on April 29-30: https://peaceandparentingla.com/event-understanding-kids-technologyOur Sponsors:* Check out Blueland: https://blueland.com/peace* Check out Happy Mammoth and use my code PEACE for a great deal: https://happymammoth.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Today I want to read to you an excerpt from my new book Unpunished, it’s from the chapter entitled Road to Empathy and I share a story about how the shame around wanting to be the “good mom” was my biggest motivator to get my kids to school on time.Get your copy of Unpunished here www.unpunishedbook.comEnjoy today’s episode? Please share it with a fellow parent or leave a rating and a review.Follow Peace and Parenting:Instagram: @peaceandparentingFacebook: @peaceandparentinglaPeace and Parenting Facebook GroupApple PodcastsSpotifyAmazon MusicInterested in learning how to balance parenting and technology? Join my Plugged in Parenting seminar on April 29-30: https://peaceandparentingla.com/event-understanding-kids-technologyOur Sponsors:* Check out Blueland: https://blueland.com/peace* Check out Happy Mammoth and use my code PEACE for a great deal: https://happymammoth.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

If you’ve recently started trying connected parenting you may have the same question many of my clients have and that is “why is it getting worse?”. When you start doing away with punishments, rewards, and time-outs we often see a rise in quote-unquote “bad behavior” but listen in today as I share with you what’s really going in here and how it’s actually a necessary step forward in the journey to a more connected relationship with your child.Enjoy today’s episode? Please share it with a fellow parent or leave a rating and a review.Follow Peace and Parenting:Instagram: @peaceandparentingFacebook: @peaceandparentinglaPeace and Parenting Facebook GroupApple PodcastsSpotifyAmazon MusicInterested in learning how to balance parenting and technology? Join my Plugged in Parenting seminar on April 29-30: https://peaceandparentingla.com/event-understanding-kids-technologyOur Sponsors:* Check out Blueland: https://blueland.com/peace* Check out Happy Mammoth and use my code PEACE for a great deal: https://happymammoth.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

One of the first things we need to do in order to implement a connected parenting style is to change our mindset. But making this shift is extremely difficult because society has told us that children are inherently bad and that they need us to make them good. I don’t believe this is true and if we can get past the judgment and allow our kids to make mistakes and sit with them during the hard times it will create a much more connected and empathetic kid as they grow up.Enjoy today’s episode? Please share it with a fellow parent or leave a rating and a review.Follow Peace and Parenting:Instagram: @peaceandparentingFacebook: @peaceandparentinglaPeace and Parenting Facebook GroupApple PodcastsSpotifyAmazon MusicInterested in learning how to balance parenting and technology? Join my Plugged in Parenting seminar on April 29-30: https://peaceandparentingla.com/event-understanding-kids-technologyOur Sponsors:* Check out Blueland: https://blueland.com/peace* Check out Happy Mammoth and use my code PEACE for a great deal: https://happymammoth.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Have you ever yelled at your child for leaving their clothes on the floor or not hanging their school bag up when they walk in the door? Today I want to unpack why it is that our children’s behavior can trigger us into wild outbursts of anger and how although we will never be able to control our kid's actions, we can control our reactions.Download my FREE guide: Healing Ourselves Through JournalingEnjoy today’s episode? Please share it with a fellow parent or leave a rating and a review.Follow Peace and Parenting:Instagram: @peaceandparentingFacebook: @peaceandparentinglaPeace and Parenting Facebook GroupApple PodcastsSpotifyAmazon MusicInterested in learning how to balance parenting and technology? Join my Plugged in Parenting seminar on April 29-30: https://peaceandparentingla.com/event-understanding-kids-technologyOur Sponsors:* Check out Blueland: https://blueland.com/peace* Check out Happy Mammoth and use my code PEACE for a great deal: https://happymammoth.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

If you were born in the ’80s or ‘90’s you were more than likely raised using shame and threats and punishments. This is no fault of our parents they were doing what they thought was right but this model doesn’t foster a great parent-child relationship. Coming in with empathy and understanding when our kids make mistakes infuses more connection into the relationship. And guess what, it’s not about the amount of time we spend with our child that builds a deep, meaningful, rich relationship it’s about the quality of time.I am rolling out a new parenting mastermind this spring to help parents like you experience more connection, more love, and less frustration with the children they love. There are a limited number of spots so join now if you're interested.Enjoy today’s episode? Please share it with a fellow parent or leave a rating and a review.Follow Peace and Parenting:YouTube: Peace and ParentingInstagram: @peaceandparentingFacebook: @peaceandparentinglaLinkedIn: @Michelle Kenney M.EdPeace and Parenting Facebook GroupApple PodcastsSpotifyAmazon MusicInterested in learning how to balance parenting and technology? Join my Plugged in Parenting seminar on April 29-30: https://peaceandparentingla.com/event-understanding-kids-technologyOur Sponsors:* Check out Blueland: https://blueland.com/peace* Check out Happy Mammoth and use my code PEACE for a great deal: https://happymammoth.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Today I want to give you some ways to use those moments when your child is having a tantrum or big feelings as a way to connect with them. If we can use these moments well by giving them space and showing them self-regulation. It will teach them so much and do wonders for your relationship in the years to come.Understanding Big Emotions CourseI am rolling out a new parenting mastermind this spring to help parents like you experience more connection, more love, and less frustration with the children they love. There are a limited number of spots so join now if you're interested.Enjoy today’s episode? Please share it with a fellow parent or leave a rating and a review.Follow Peace and Parenting:YouTube: Peace and ParentingInstagram: @peaceandparentingFacebook: @peaceandparentinglaLinkedIn: @Michelle Kenney M.EdPeace and Parenting Facebook GroupApple PodcastsSpotifyAmazon MusicInterested in learning how to balance parenting and technology? Join my Plugged in Parenting seminar on April 29-30: https://peaceandparentingla.com/event-understanding-kids-technologyOur Sponsors:* Check out Blueland: https://blueland.com/peace* Check out Happy Mammoth and use my code PEACE for a great deal: https://happymammoth.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy