Enforcing Rules Without Yelling (Or Nagging)

About this episode

Lisa discusses effective methods for enforcing rules with children without resorting to yelling or nagging.

#166 In this episode, Lisa discusses her thoughts on when children break rules. She covers methods she doesn’t recommend like yelling, repeating yourself as a parent, and using threats and warnings. She also provides her reasoning for having two consequences on the BratBusters Behaviour Board and how she may approach it if calm leadership parenting feels not attainable. Lastly, Lisa addresses five listener questions, discussing the specific choices for parent’s consequences on the Brat...

People in this episode

Host: Lisa Bunnage

Topics covered

• parenting
• rules
• consequences
• calm leadership
• listener questions

Keywords

• parenting techniques
• behavior management
• consequences
• calm parenting
• BratBusters

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