You may be surprised to discover what you’re doing wrong to turn that behavior around Michele Borba Note to my readers: over the past years I’ve been on a mission to find the best solutions in child development — tips that really do enhance our children’s character, behavior, emotional, social and cognitive development. I combed [...]

This week I’m blogging about common parenting mistakes that we may making –and usually quite unintentionally. Being aware of them and changing our response can make a significance difference on our children’s behavior, attitude and character.  MISTAKE #3: Setting Unrealistic Expectations Solution: Use developmentally appropriate, realistic, child and success-oriented expectations.    Research proves a powerful [...]

This week I’ll be sharing common parenting mistakes that we unintentionally make with our children. Here is the second mistake I shared with Natalie Morales on the TODAY show.  PARENTING MISTAKE 2. Not Using the Right Words the Right Way Solution: Be mindful of the result you are seeking and your word choice to achieve [...]