10 Ways to Help Your Child Tackle Any Problem

Dr. Robyn’s Powerful Parenting Blog will be featuring some articles from guest bloggers, including some young bloggers who are still in their teens or early 20s. These bloggers are particularly helpful because they provide us with an “inside look” when it comes to the world of young people.

Today, we’d like to thank young [...]

“Mommy, I hate you and Daddy You’re Mean!” Six Tips to Help You Cope with Your Child’s Angry Words

Dear Dr. Robyn,
I feel like the worst Mom. My son is 4 years old and he has always been a very sweet and loving boy. But the other day when we were playing with his toy trucks on the floor he got really mad, threw the truck down, and told me that [...]

Top Students: Does Self Discipline Trump IQ in Children and Teens?

Today I received the following question about children’s self discipline vs smarts from Mary in Charlotte, North Carolina:

“I have a quick question–since the Powerful Word this month is Self Discipline, my husband got into this discussion about our son (age 14) and daughter (age 11) who have very different study habits. We were [...]

I did it! Teaching Children the Rewards of Self Discipline

You know several tips on helping children learn self discipline since you read it in the Dear Dr. Robyn column in your Powerful Words package this month. But I thought I would expand on one of the tips (number 4) in the following article on children and self discipline, in particular: “Help your children [...]

The POWer of Self Discipline: Three Reasons Goals Fail to Reach the Finish Line

“Use Self Discipline to execute your plan or find that the lack of it will execute your dreams.” –Dr. Robyn J.A. Silverman–February Self Discipline Quote of the Month
As it’s now February and we are taking inventory on how well we’ve done so far on our New Year’s Resolutions, the February POWerful quote of the month [...]

Using Self Discipline to Get Organized

In my recent post, Being a Role Model: Am I self disciplined?, I must have hit a nerve. Several people wrote in and told me that the self discipline questions prompted them to take a good hard look at their own ability to discipline themselves. Question #2, “How much time do you waste [...]

POWerful Praise: 5 Ways to Properly Praise Children

Praising our children is important to their positive development. They need to know what they are doing right and how you appreciate their effort and achievements. Praise makes them feel loved, appreciated, noticed, and secure. We want to help build their self esteem, however, can we really praise too much?It turns out, [...]

Being a Role Model: Am I self disciplined?

The POWerful Word of the Month is Self Discipline! While teachers and instructors will be imparting valuable lessons about self discipline to your family this month, the most POWerful parents will take the lessons home with them! As parents and teachers, it’s important to model self discipline, if we want children and teens to adopt [...]

Self Discipline: Encouraging your Child to Give that Extra Push

Those of you who are attending the amazing schools and programs that use POWerful Words and/or you are one of our POWerful Family members, you know that February is Self Discipline month. What POWerful Words indeed! As we are helping our children to focus on themselves for the first quarter of 2008 (health, self [...]