Parenting Beyond Discipline

Child development research can and does help parents understand their children and how to best support them to reach their potential and create stronger family relationships. Learn about the key areas Erin looks for when vetting solid child development research to share with her audience and some ways you can learn to discriminate the good from bad parenting "advice."

Erin shares guidelines for introducing kids to physical skills, sports rules and play and competitive sports in age appropriate ways, taking both physical and metal-emotional aspects of child development into consideration, starting in toddlerhood through high school. Learn how to support your child in healthy and positive ways throughout childhood in sports and physical activities

Ever wonder the differences between Montessori, Reggio, High Scope, and other early childhood education philosophies? Want to know what to look for and ask on a preschool tour? This episode on shopping for a preschool covers these. Plus Erin answers a question from a listener about how parents can build their own self-esteem based on her experience.

Hear Erin's parenting answers to her listeners' questions. How do you handle one brother beating up on another? What do you do with a nine year old who is throwing tantrums? When should you start learning about discipline and other common child development stages and issues so you can be ready? Erin answers these questions with insight and warmth and gives these parents some plans of action.

If you are concerned about bullying, just curious or want to be prepared, this episode covers what bullying is, the dynamics and effects of bullying, and ways to work with your child at home and through the school for both prevention and if you know or suspect bullying is happening, whether your child is the aggressor, a victim or a witness to bullying.

Power struggles start in toddlerhood and last all the way through adolescence so learning to recognize them, prevent them and handle them well when they do happen is paramount. In this episode, Erin shares some great tips and tools for preventing and dealing with power struggles, including her own recent experience, what she did wrong and what she would do differently the next time so you can learn from her mistake!

Get some great tips for getting off on the right foot for a successful school year! In this episode, Erin covers tips from a smoother homework process to smoother mornings.

In this episode, Erin answers various questions that have come in from her listeners about toddler bedtimes, getting a toddler to eat during mealtimes, helping a mom with determined toddler solve a common problem. If you have a question for Erin, send it to podcast@yourvillageonline.com

The democratic/authoritative parenting style has been shown to result in THE best outcomes for social-emotional skills, cognitive skills, happiness and success in relationships and life. Positive discipline is the discipline philosophy that falls into this parenting style. Learn about positive discipline, what it is, why it works and some tips on implementing it in your family.

Have you heard of parenting styles and ever wondered about them or what style you fall under? In this episode, Erin discusses the 4 parenting styles, what traits are common to each and what research show are the common outcomes for each of the 4 styles. Enlightening, interesting and a must-listen for all parents.

Do you want your evenings back? Toddlers, and older kids too, need lots of sleep. So the evening chase game is not ideal for either parent or child. Learn some great tips on teaching your kids good bedtime habits and get your evenings back!

Setting up healthy lifetime habits starts early in childhood. In this episode Erin talks about many ways to help kids learn to enjoy healthy foods and physical fitness and touches on ways to make sure your kids don't go down the path of picky eating or ways to get back on track if they are already picky and how to steer clear of pitfalls that lead to picky eating habits.

Traveling with kids, whether infants, toddlers or beyond, presents its own special challenges. Learn some great tips from Erin to make the travel part of your vacation or holiday smoother and easier whether it's by train, plane or car!

Teaching kids about sexual consent starts early with things like teaching respect, boundaries, emotion skills, empathy skills and a healthy attitude towards sex and sexuality. Although this is a deep and intricate topic, this episode covers the basics of setting up a great foundation for and teaching about respectful sexual boundaries and consent in age appropriate ways.

The first step in an easy and smooth potty training process is knowing the signs to look for. This episode cover pre-readiness signs and ways to keep and increase interest, readiness signs that let you know your chances of potty training success and ease are high, as well as the 3 not ready signs that make potty training impossible!