Tag Archives: discipline

Brain-Body Parenting with Dr. Mona Delahooke

February 10, 2022Guests, Parentingbeyond behaviors, Brain-Body Parenting, co-regulation, discipline, Dr. Mona Delahooke, SambucolJennifer L.W. Fink

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Brain-body parenting can help you raise joyful, resilient boys, says Dr. Mona Delahooke. Boys’ behavior offers clues as to what’s going on inside the child — and deciphering what’s happening internally can help us tailor our response to the unique human individual before us. It’s time to “move from focusing on behaviors to focusing on … Continue reading Brain-Body Parenting with Dr. Mona Delahooke →

Troubled Boys (w Kenneth R. Rosen)

July 29, 2021Guests, Parentingboarding schools, discipline, Hiya Health, Kenneth R. Rosen, learning, residential treatment programs, school, troubled, troubled boysJennifer L.W. Fink

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What do you with troubled boys? With boys who are failing school, sneaking off, and using substances? Boys who have resisted disciplinary efforts and redirection? That’s the question at the heart of Kenneth R. Rosen’s latest book, Troubled: The Failed Promise of America’s Behavioral Treatment Programs. There are no easy answers to that question but … Continue reading Troubled Boys (w Kenneth R. Rosen) →

Cracking the Boy Code with Dr. Adam Cox

December 17, 2020Guests, Parentingcommunication, Cracking the Boy Code, depression, discipline, Dr. Adam Cox, motivation, parenting, video gamesJanet

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Dr. Adam Cox helped Janet crack the boy code, way back when she was a first grade teacher who didn’t know what to do with a class full of boys. His book, Cracking the Boy Code: How to Understand and Talk with Boys, is a seminal text that contains valuable insights for parents and teachers … Continue reading Cracking the Boy Code with Dr. Adam Cox →

Family Meetings & The 9-Year Change

October 29, 2020Parenting, Uncategorized9 year change, communication, discipline, family meetingsJanet

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Family meetings can you help adapt your parenting to fit the changing needs of your family. One of the most challenging (and demoralizing) aspects of parenting is realizing that you must constantly revise your parenting strategies. The tips, techniques and discipline strategies that worked so well when your little boy was 2 don’t work at … Continue reading Family Meetings & The 9-Year Change →

Listener Q & A – Parenting Teen Boys

October 15, 2020Listener Q & A, Uncategorizedanger, discipline, listener Q & A, school, teenagers, teensJanet

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Parenting teen boys is not easy. They’re bigger than us. Stronger than us. They speak in a language we don’t necessarily understand — if they choose to speak at all. Their focus is turning outward, just as we parents realize how little time we have left to teach them all the things they need to … Continue reading Listener Q & A – Parenting Teen Boys →

Parenting Outside the Lines with Meghan Leahy

September 24, 2020Guests, Parenting, Uncategorizedcommunication, discipline, Meaghn Leahy, parenting, Parenting Outside the Lines, screen timeJanet

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Parenting outside the lines frees us up to connect with our children in an authentic way. It allows us to skip over the “must do’s” and simply, instead, do the next right thing in any given moment. And if the “right thing” ultimately takes us a direction we don’t want to go, it gives us … Continue reading Parenting Outside the Lines with Meghan Leahy →

Help Boys Listen & Learn (Listener Q & A)

September 3, 2020Listener Q & A, UncategorizedBuilding Boys Bulletin, communication, discipline, emotions, fathers, learning, listener Q & A, parenting, school, teens, video gamesJanet

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How do we help boys listen & learn? In month whatever of the pandemic, we’re all grappling with a lot of tough questions, including what to do about school and injustice and inequality. We can’t give you any easy answers regarding schooling during the cornonavirus pandemic or the fight for equality and justice. There aren’t … Continue reading Help Boys Listen & Learn (Listener Q & A) →

The Art of Roughhousing (w Dr. Lawrence Cohen)

June 25, 2020Guests, Parentingdiscipline, emotional development, Lawrence Cohen, parenting, play, playful parenting, roughhousingJanet

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Roughhousing can teach boys about healthy touch. Society teaches boys that there are two kinds of “acceptable” touch for males: sex, and aggression. No wonder so many boys and men turn to sex and aggression to meet their very human need for touch! Physical play — including play wrestling, “chase” games and roughhousing — give … Continue reading The Art of Roughhousing (w Dr. Lawrence Cohen) →

Why Boys Need Chores – with Victoria Prooday

May 21, 2020Guests, UncategorizedADHD, chores, discipline, handwriting, online school, parenting, screens, technology, The Silent Tragedy Affecting Today's Children, Victoria Prooday, Your OTJanet

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Chores, Victoria Prooday says, are the most efficient way to build our boys’ emotional muscle. Prooday, a psychotherapist, occupational therapist and speaker, is convinced that self-regulation is the key to success — and science backs up her assertion. As early as 1998, psychologists were publishing papers and chapters stating that, “Self-regulation has major, important implications … Continue reading Why Boys Need Chores – with Victoria Prooday →

Mom is in Control with Heather Chauvin

May 7, 2020Guests, Uncategorizedanxiety, discipline, emotional development, Heather Chauvin, Mom is in Control, parenting, single mom, single parentingJanet

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Is mom in control at your house? We don’t mean “in control” in the dictator sense, or in the mom-is-storming-around-the-house-yelling-at-everyone way. We don’t even mean “in control” to mean “your house is neat and orderly and your children do exactly as you say.” We mean in control of YOURSELF. After all, the only thing you … Continue reading Mom is in Control with Heather Chauvin →