Pop of Parenting

Providing training to parents to facilitate better communication, behavior management, and daily structures within the home, school, and community.

Welcome to Pop of Parenting! My goal is to help parents and providers view difficult situations at home through a new lens.

Sometimes getting a different perspective on a situation can totally change the way you handle it and how your kids or clients react. In providing that lens, my hope is to help you see motivations and patterns of behavior emerge rather than kids who “never listen” and “always break the rules”.

Over time, I will help you make small changes to your behavior, responses to your children, way of viewing situations, and the environment to make long lasting changes in your family’s life.

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The "Most Generous Interpretation" is in a sense giving your child the "benefit of the doubt". Rather than immediately reprimanding them after they don't follow through an instruction, break a rule, or argue with you, take a moment to step into their shoes and see the situation from their perspective. Some questions you could ask yourself might be...

Talking to your child on eye level has so many benefits. Especially when discussing difficult topics like discipline, confronting your child about a mistake they made and how they need to rectify it, or a moment when your child is confinding in you about something that upset them, making eye contact. One study showed that making eye contact activates parts of our brain essential in understanding and sharing emotions, and ultimately developing empathy.

While your kids are at school, they're given plenty of chances to catch what the teacher is saying and given cues that tell their brain "this part coming is important, listen to what she's saying". This step is crucial in cutting down the number of times an instruction is repeated before a child can take the next steps to follow through on that demand.

Do you feel like your kids continuously break the same rules that they for sure know over, and over, and over...and over again? When we tell kids to stop doing something, it's often the "end of the conversation". We often leave out the "what they can do" part, or the alternative or replacement behavior.

The hours after school and before bedtime are filled with endless lists of activities. Some activities done outside the house like sports practice, tutoring, or music lessons give little to no wiggle room when it comes to engaging and interacting with your children. What about the few precious hours you might have with them otherwise?

This quote resonated with me when I saw it in Parent Magazine. Parenting goes beyond the confines of your home or the time you spend with your children. The interactions you have with your children are the foundation for the learning and behavior they will carry with them OUT of your home, into the world as they form relationships, approach challenges, and conduct themselves around others.