Affirmative Parenting

I learned some great parenting techniques as part of my collegiate experience. One of the things I was trained to do in my hands-on experience at a DAP preschool was to affirm proper behaviors. Instead of saying, "No yelling" you say, "Use your inside voice", or "Let's share" instead of "Don't take that toy away from him".

It is a challenge to re-train yourself to speak & think in this manner, and I must give Tyler credit for trying really really hard to do this -- not for a class or a grade (I really was graded on how I spoke to the children), but for the sake of trying to be a good dad.

I just never thought I'd hear the following phrase at my house: "Drew, teeth off the piano."

































Drew sporting some of the family's shoes.