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Discipline

How to stop your child from cursing in your home

Make no bones about it: this behavior needs to be dealt with very strongly. If your child is grounded for 24 hours as part of the consequence and he happens to be involved in sports, make him miss practice for

Sarrah AbuLughod July 9, 2018 Article Archives, Parenting Read more

Blended Family and Step-Parenting Tips

Since many remarriages include children from previous relationships, blended families or stepfamilies are more common than ever. When families “blend”, though, things rarely progress smoothly. Some children may resist changes, while you as a parent can become frustrated when your

Sarrah AbuLughod December 7, 2017 Article Archives, Marriage, Mental Health, Parenting, Youth Read more

When siblings act out – How to discipline when the new baby arrives

Welcoming a new baby into the home is such a joy! When it’s the second baby or beyond, this wonderful time also comes with many challenges, including finding ways to connect and offer appropriate guidance to siblings. Much like this

Sarrah AbuLughod October 16, 2017 Article Archives, Parenting Read more

12 Mistakes of Modern-Day Parenting (infographic)

Sarrah AbuLughod August 14, 2017 Article Archives, Parenting Read more

How to raise a happy, successful, and cooperative child (infographic)

Sarrah AbuLughod August 1, 2017 Article Archives, Parenting Read more

10 Tips To Help Your Child With Anger

But humans don’t only get angry in response to outside threats. When something happens today that reminds us of a past upset, we get angry to protect ourselves — even if the threat today isn’t really much of a threat.

Sarrah AbuLughod June 28, 2017 Article Archives, Parenting Read more

Tips for successful disciplining

Sarrah AbuLughod June 26, 2017 Article Archives, Parenting, Youth Read more

How to raise a happy child while disciplining less (infographic)

Sarrah AbuLughod June 13, 2017 Article Archives, Parenting Read more

The School to Prison Pipeline (infographic)

Sarrah AbuLughod May 31, 2017 Article Archives, Mental Health, Parenting, Youth Read more

What’s Wrong with Strict Parenting?

Research shows that most people think strict parenting produces better-behaved kids. However, research studies on discipline consistently show that strict, or authoritarian, child-raising actually produces kids with lower self esteem who behave worse than other kids — and therefore get

Sarrah AbuLughod January 25, 2017January 26, 2017 Article Archives, Parenting Read more
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