Tag Archive for: chores

How you can make chores more inviting to your child

Genevieve Simperingham, 22/02/2015, PP Strategies & Tools, chores, power struggles, teenagers, 1

This article offers some tips that can make a dramatic difference in increasing cooperation and decreasing power struggles in...

Setting limits can bring healing tears and tantrums

Genevieve Simperingham, 19/11/2013, Healthy Boundaries, chores, crying, grumpy child, healing, power struggles, requests, tantrums, 5

Setting limits can bring healing tears and tantrums It’s important to express the limits that prevent aggressive or destructive...

Tread gently when correcting your child

Genevieve Simperingham, 15/10/2013, Respectful Communication, boundaries, chores, discipline, i statements, limits, parental frustration, requests, 6

Parents work hard to help their child become aware of what’s socially appropriate and inappropriate, what they’re allowed to...

Family Meetings

Genevieve Simperingham, 19/09/2013, PP Strategies & Tools, chores, communication, family meetings, problem solving, requests, 0

My kids so often come out with little gems that I think I should record but rarely do. But...

When teenagers refuse to do chores

Genevieve Simperingham, 26/07/2013, PP Strategies & Tools, chores, not listening, power struggles, problem solving, requests, teenagers, teens, 21

A mother asks: “My fourteen year old son is refusing to do chores. For 14 years, there were no...

Grumpy children need our sweetness and nothing else will do

Genevieve Simperingham, 26/07/2013, PP Strategies & Tools, allowing feelings, chores, conflict with your child, not listening, parental anger, parental frustration, power struggles, requests, 14

When children are upset and unsettled, they need empathy and connection before solutions or suggestions. They need to get...

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