Most Popular Blogs — Blog — Child Development and Parent Consultation

Blog Posts

Posts in Most Popular Blogs

How To Be A "Gentle" Parent When You Have A Big Reactor

How To Be A "Gentle" Parent When You Have A Big Reactor

Challenging Behaviors, Highly Sensitive Children, Most Popular Blogs, Parenting Mindshifts, Positive Discipline, Social/emotional devClaire LernerFebruary 15, 2023Big reactors, gentle parenting, co-regulation

How "Two-Great Choices" Prevents Power Struggles

How "Two-Great Choices" Prevents Power Struggles

Positive Discipline, Most Popular BlogsClaire LernerDecember 16, 2022power struggles, child development, positive discipline

A Roadmap To Setting Limits With Love

A Roadmap To Setting Limits With Love

Positive Discipline, Most Popular BlogsClaire LernerDecember 4, 2022positive discipline, choices

Stop Working So Hard To Calm Your Kids!

Stop Working So Hard To Calm Your Kids!

Positive Parenting, Parenting Mindshifts, lessons from the trenches, Highly Sensitive Children, Most Popular BlogsClaire LernerMay 31, 2022Positive parenting, calming kids, self-regulation

5 Ways to Help a Hesitant Child Try New Things

5 Ways to Help a Hesitant Child Try New Things

Highly Sensitive Children, Positive Parenting, Social/emotional dev, Most Popular BlogsClaire LernerMarch 28, 2022

10 Traits of Highly Sensitive Children

10 Traits of Highly Sensitive Children

Highly Sensitive Children, Most Popular Blogs, Positive ParentingClaire LernerFebruary 20, 2022highly sensitive children

When Kids Act Mean: Why some kids have trouble being kind and what you can do

When Kids Act Mean: Why some kids have trouble being kind and what you can do

Challenging Behaviors, Highly Sensitive Children, Parenting Mindshifts, Social/emotional dev, Most Popular BlogsClaire LernerApril 5, 2021challenging behavior, kindness, social emotional development

Understanding and Supporting Highly Sensitive Children (HSC)

Understanding and Supporting Highly Sensitive Children (HSC)

Highly Sensitive Children, Most Popular BlogsClaire LernerFebruary 1, 2021limit setting, discipline, challenging behavior, sensitive children, positive parenting Comments

How to End Mealtime Madness

How to End Mealtime Madness

Mealtime/Feeding, Positive Parenting, Feeding/mealtimes, Establishing Routines, Most Popular BlogsClaire LernerJanuary 30, 2021Feeding, mealtimes, eating

Stop Trying to Control Your Child

Stop Trying to Control Your Child

Positive Discipline, Most Popular Blogs, Parental self-awarenessClaire LernerDecember 17, 2020Positive parenting, Discipline, cooperation

How to Build resilience in Children who have a low Tolerance for Frustration

How to Build resilience in Children who have a low Tolerance for Frustration

Challenging Behaviors, Highly Sensitive Children, Social/emotional dev, Most Popular Blogs, Nurturing Problem-SolversClaire LernerSeptember 5, 2020positive parenting, social emotional development, highly sensitive children

Regression: Why children take steps backwards in their development and what you can do

Regression: Why children take steps backwards in their development and what you can do

Challenging Behaviors, Coronavirus Resources, Most Popular Blogs, Social/emotional devClaire LernerApril 13, 2020Regression, positive parenting

Why Children Laugh, Evade, or Get Angry When Being Corrected (No, your child is not a sociopath)

Why Children Laugh, Evade, or Get Angry When Being Corrected (No, your child is not a sociopath)

Challenging Behaviors, Positive Parenting, Positive Discipline, Highly Sensitive Children, Most Popular Blogs, Parental self-awarenessClaire LernerJanuary 28, 2020challenging behaviors, challenging behavior, positive parenting, positive discipline

Safe Space Breaks: When Giving Your Child (And Yourself!) A Break Can Be Helpful, Not Harmful

Safe Space Breaks: When Giving Your Child (And Yourself!) A Break Can Be Helpful, Not Harmful

Challenging Behaviors, Positive Discipline, Most Popular BlogsClaire LernerJanuary 4, 2020challenging behavior, positive disciplone, positive discipline Comments

Why Punishment Doesn't Stop Aggressive Behavior

Why Punishment Doesn't Stop Aggressive Behavior

lessons from the trenches, Positive Discipline, Challenging Behaviors, Most Popular BlogsClaire LernerOctober 21, 2019challenging behavior, positive disciploneComment

Securing Sleep: Key Principles for Helping Your Child Become a Good Sleeper

Securing Sleep: Key Principles for Helping Your Child Become a Good Sleeper

Sleep, Most Popular BlogsClaire LernerJune 25, 2019sleep Comments

Go With The Flow, Part 2: How to Address the Typical Challenges That Arise in the Potty-Learning Process

Go With The Flow, Part 2: How to Address the Typical Challenges That Arise in the Potty-Learning Process

Potty Learning, Most Popular BlogsClaire LernerFebruary 14, 2019Toilet training, potty training Comments

Struggling With a Child Who is Inflexible and Makes Unreasonable, Irrational Demands?

Struggling With a Child Who is Inflexible and Makes Unreasonable, Irrational Demands?

Positive Discipline, Challenging Behaviors, Most Popular Blogs, Social/emotional dev, Highly Sensitive ChildrenClaire LernerJanuary 24, 2019flexibility, adaptability, cooperation, following rules Comments

Go with the Flow: Preventing the Perils of Potty Training

Go with the Flow: Preventing the Perils of Potty Training

Potty Learning, Potty Training, Most Popular BlogsClaire LernerJanuary 22, 2019Toilet training, potty learning Comments

Goodnight, Sleep Tight: How to help young children cope with nighttime fears

Goodnight, Sleep Tight: How to help young children cope with nighttime fears

Sleep, Most Popular BlogsClaire LernerNovember 26, 2018sleep, nightmares, bad dreams, limit setting Comment