Coaching practices for How Can I Help My Child Handle Peer Pressure Regarding Television
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- I praise my kid constantly
- My child reacts to everything on pure impulse and never seems to stop and think how the other kid feels, and I want to actually build that thinking-and-considering muscle during our good calm moments, not just keep firefighting once they’ve already lost it.
- Every conversation with my kid about their behavior turns into me laying down the law and them digging in, and I want a way to actually talk it through together
- Even when I sit down to play with my kid I catch myself steering it
- When my kid acts out I lose it
Practices that may help
- Sportscast what you see rather than directing
Narrate the play without evaluation, question, or instruction.
Special Time (Lawrence Cohen — Playful Parenting) - Engage the upstairs brain through curiosity and play
Ask questions that require the child to think, imagine, or consider another perspective.
The Whole-Brain Child (Siegel & Bryson) - Use Plan B: the three-step collaborative conversation
Empathize with the child’s concern, share yours, and invite them to solve it together.
Collaborative Problem Solving (Ross Greene) - Follow the child’s lead completely during special time
Let the child decide what you do, how long you stay, and when you move on.
Special Time (Lawrence Cohen — Playful Parenting) - Refuse to energize negative behavior
Give consequences briefly and blandly — no energy, no lecture, no drama.
The Nurtured Heart Approach (Howard Glasser) - Arrange the environment to support Green Zone states
Predictable schedules, sensory comfort, and low transition stress make Green more accessible.
Zones of Regulation (Leah Kuypers) - Encourage the effort and the process, not the outcome
Encouragement builds inner confidence; outcome-praise creates dependency on adult evaluation.
Natural and Logical Consequences (Rudolf Dreikurs) - Use logical consequences that fit the behavior
A consequence that is directly connected to the behavior teaches cause and effect instead of just imposing discomfort.
Triple P Parenting (Matthew Sanders) - Use special time to fill the connection cup before problems escalate
A proactive ten-minute connection recharge can prevent an afternoon of battles.
Special Time (Lawrence Cohen — Playful Parenting) - Recognize what is not happening with proactive recognition
Catch the child not misbehaving and name the success explicitly.
The Nurtured Heart Approach (Howard Glasser)
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Empathize with the child’s concern, share yours, and invite them to solve it together.
Use Plan B: the three-step collaborative conversation
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Encouragement builds inner confidence; outcome-praise creates dependency on adult evaluation.
Encourage the effort and the process, not the outcome
- Active Constructive Responding For My Teenager
Shelly Gable’s research found that how partners respond to each other’s good news — not just how they handle bad news — predicts relationship quality. There are four response styles crossed on two axes (active vs passive, constructive vs destructive); only active-constructive responding, which is enthusiastic and engaged, reliably strengthens the bond. This "capitalization" work has a solid research base in relationship science.
- Game For Better Teen Sibling Relationship
Playful physical contact after a difficult moment re-welds the relationship faster than discussion.
Use play to re-establish connection after conflict or separation
- Games To Play With Child Just Under One Year
Let the child decide what you do, how long you stay, and when you move on.
Follow the child’s lead completely during special time
- Greasing The Groove As A Parent
Greasing the groove (GTG) is a strength training method developed by Pavel Tsatsouline in which you perform a target movement frequently throughout the day at sub-maximal effort — typically 40-60% of maximum — without ever training to failure. The goal is neurological efficiency rather than hypertrophy: myelinating the motor pattern so the movement becomes more automatic and powerful. Evidence is mechanistically grounded in motor learning research; formal RCTs specifically testing GTG as a protocol are limited.
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