Parenting: Love & Logic- Week 1

On April 16 I started taking a Parenting: Love & Logic class to help me better mom to my children. So I learned more on this week than I did last week. I learned to give my children choices. I have learned that Natalie does VERY WELL with choices. In the mornings I struggle getting her to do anything without watching a few of her favorite shows and some juice first. So then when it comes to breakfast she wants options because she is also a very picky eater. So we are now giving her choices and she is doing very well with it. Then when we have melt downs I learned an "Uh-Oh Song" where we tell them uh oh its room time so they sit in their room until they have calmed down and quiet enough to sit with the family again. When they come out of room time I learned to not reiterate whey they went to their room but to just hug them. All of us know that we don't like the idea of salt being rubbed in our woulds and reiterating why they went to their room is doing exactly that. So I am really learning a lot and everything I have tried has worked really well. Something else we had a problem with where Love & Logic has helped is when we let our kids bring their bikes out front and tell them they can only go so far without Mom and Dad then Natalie decides to test how far she can really go and when I yell at her to come back she will me "I didn't hear you telling me to come back" (silly girl she repeats what I say but she is saying she can't hear me) so instead of just taking the bike and punishing her we put it away for the rest of the day and try again the next day. They will soon realize they can't cross the line. I am really learning to many different techniques of discipline that works wonders over yelling and screaming.I am excited for the next class.