Coaching practices for Social Learning Parenting
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- Even when I sit down to play with my kid I catch myself steering it
- My kid won’t put on the coat, won’t pack the lunch, and every fiber of me wants to swoop in and save them from the small fallout
- I lay down a rule and my kids ignore it because it’s "my" rule they had no say in
- When I ask my kid about their day I get one-word answers, and I realize I only ever ask about homework and chores
- I praise my kid constantly
Practices that may help
- 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) - Allow natural consequences to do the teaching
Step back and let the world respond — your child learns more from being cold than from being lectured about coats.
Natural and Logical Consequences (Rudolf Dreikurs) - Use family meetings to solve problems together
When children help solve the problem, they own the solution — and solutions they own, they actually follow.
Positive Discipline (Jane Nelsen) - Talk with your child about their day and interests
Genuine conversational interest builds vocabulary, trust, and the relationship buffer that makes limits land without conflict.
Triple P Parenting (Matthew Sanders) - Sportscast what you see rather than directing
Narrate the play without evaluation, question, or instruction.
Special Time (Lawrence Cohen — Playful Parenting) - Cultivate a "yes brain": curiosity, courage, and resilience over reactivity
Respond to the child’s world with curiosity and openness rather than threat and control.
The Whole-Brain Child (Siegel & Bryson) - Triple P Parenting (Matthew Sanders)
Triple P — Positive Parenting Program — is a multilevel evidence-based parenting support system developed by Matthew Sanders at the University of Queensland. It teaches positive relationship skills, proactive management strategies, and calm responses to misbehavior. Multiple meta-analyses and RCTs support its effectiveness for reducing child behavior problems and parent stress, making it one of the most rigorously evaluated parenting programs in the world. - Spend quality one-on-one time with your child
Fifteen minutes of child-led, uninterrupted attention per day builds the relationship that discipline depends on.
Triple P Parenting (Matthew Sanders) - Deliver active recognition of ordinary positive moments
Narrate what the child is doing right in real time, even when it is unremarkable.
The Nurtured Heart Approach (Howard Glasser) - Take time for training — teach the skill, not just the rule
Children misbehave partly because they don’t know how to do the right thing — teach the skill when everyone is calm.
Positive Discipline (Jane Nelsen)
Related concerns
- Follow The Child S Lead
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
- How To Explain The Fun Parent Phenomenon To A 5 Year Old
Children who understand why a rule exists are more likely to internalize it — and more likely to generalize it to new situations.
Explain the reason behind rules
- Parent Child Conversation
Genuine conversational interest builds vocabulary, trust, and the relationship buffer that makes limits land without conflict.
Talk with your child about their day and interests
- Slow Living As A Parent
Slow living is the deliberate choice to move through life at an intentional pace — doing fewer things with more presence instead of maximizing throughput. It grew out of the Slow Food movement and is best understood mechanistically: pace is a lever on attention and savoring, not a clinically proven treatment.
- Teaching Responsibility Children
Let the child decide what you do, how long you stay, and when you move on.
- When Special Time Follow The Child
Let the child decide what you do, how long you stay, and when you move on.
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