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Should You Negotiate Your Child’s Curfew?

December 19th, 201103:00 PM ET

By Empowering Parents

There are times when your thirteen year old may seem like a seasoned litigator, and your kitchen feels like a courtroom. Kids are surprisingly adept at negotiating, and sometimes it's hard to "beat them at their own game." It's important to teach kids how to negotiate because it's a necessary life skill, and it helps create kids who can functi...
Why Harsh Punishments for Children and Teenagers Don't Work

September 21st, 201104:05 PM ET

By Empowering Parents

Have you ever punished your child in the heat of the moment, when you're angry and upset? If you're like most parents, the answer is probably "yes." In fact, this is one of the biggest, most common parenting traps that you can fall into. But often when you do this, you're focused on winning the fight rather than working towards teaching your ch...
10 Tips for Better Dads

June 17th, 201108:18 PM ET

By Rick I. Johnson

Niels Bohr said, "An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field." If that quotation is true, I must be getting pretty close to being an expert father by now. Hopefully though, I've learned from the mistakes I've made. The mark of a good leader and a good father is just that—the ability to learn from mis...
7 Tools to Stop Fighting in School and at Home

May 12th, 201109:09 AM ET

By Empowering Parents

James discusses exactly what to do when your children get in trouble for fighting at school or at home—and the right kinds of consequences to give them so they learn to use appropriate behavior instead of lashing out when they feel like hitting someone the next time. Read on to find out the steps you can take toward resolving the problem of ...
How to Deal with Lying in Children and Teens

May 04th, 201102:01 PM ET

By Empowering Parents

When you catch your child in a lie, it's natural to feel betrayed, hurt, angry and frustrated. But here's the truth: lying is normal. It's wrong, but it's normal. In fact, we all do it to some degree. Consider how adults use lies in their daily lives: When we're stopped for speeding, we often minimize what we've done wrong, if not out–an...
How to Manage Anger in Children and Teens

January 10th, 201104:49 PM ET

By Empowering Parents

It's hard to get most adolescents to comply, but when you're dealing with a hostile teen, it can be almost impossible. In part two of this series on anger and hostility in kids, James Lehman discusses concrete ways for you to break through your child's force field of anger and defuse his hostility. Don't give up yet—it really is possible to b...
Parenting Super Hero or Not?

April 05th, 201001:49 PM ET

By Mark Gregston

Being a super hero works out pretty well in the movies or comic books, but when it comes to parenting, rescuing your teenager every time can lead to problems. It can spoil their ability to see the world as it truly is, and it can cause uncaring, self-centered and entitled thinking in your teenager now and throughout their lifetime. Parents are wir...
Why Kids Tell Lies And What To Do About It

February 22nd, 201005:27 PM ET

By Empowering Parents

Q: When your child lies to you, it hurts. As parents, it makes us angry and we take it personally. We feel like we can never trust our child again. Why does lying cause such anger, pain and worry for parents? James: Parents are understandably very afraid of their children getting hurt and getting into trouble, but they have very little protection ...
Shame and Anger: The Emotional Handcuffs of Parenting

February 08th, 201012:33 PM ET

By Empowering Parents

One of the unaddressed elements of children's behavior is the pain that families go through, knowing that others are judging them. Because the fact is, they are being judged. When parents have to go to school constantly because of their kid's outbursts, when they get in conflicts with the neighbors because of the kid's behavior, when they're at th...
We Got a Diagnosis for Our Child—Now What? ADHD, ODD, LDs and More—What a Diagnosis Means for Your Child

January 26th, 201004:56 PM ET

By Empowering Parents

A diagnosis is an important piece of the puzzle we are trying to solve when we try to help kids with disabilities learn how to function. Many parents are relieved when they get a diagnosis for their acting-out, "problem child" because they see it as a guideline for the future. They think, "Now we'll know what to do; this is it- we'll finally get ou...

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