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Martine Oglethorpe

Saying yes to say no to your kids: getting discipline right

Saying yes to say no? Don’t we make it harder for ourselves if we give in? Of course…..sometimes. Disciplining our children is one of the

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August 25, 2015 12 Comments
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Anxiety
Martine Oglethorpe

Your kid isn’t trying to make you miserable: understanding your child’s behaviour

“You are just doing this to annoy me”, “Are you trying to make me miserable?” These are the desperate pleas I heard from a mother

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March 30, 2015 17 Comments

3 ways to get children to cooperate: cues to better behaviour

There is nothing more frustrating than a toddler or young child that put ups the same arguments, procrastinations, tantrums and refusals in order to avoid

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January 23, 2012 10 Comments

Would you dob on your own child?

How far would you go to teach your child a lesson? The recent riots in the UK led to the revelation that a mother, on

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August 18, 2011 10 Comments

How good are you at following through?

Whilst trying to tame the monster of effective parenting and discipline, we have all made a myriad of threats that for whatever reason we have

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July 1, 2011 2 Comments

13 Things I Have Learnt from My First 3 Kids To Help Me Parent The Next 2

As we parent each new child we gain more knowledge, we learn more strategies, we make more mistakes and we continue to come to the

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April 13, 2011 15 Comments

Equality is not always the answer. Why we cant always be fair…

“That is sooooooo not fair” wailed my 9  year old from the bathroom. Not really sure what he was wailing about but my swift response was an equally

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April 8, 2011 10 Comments

Picking the Battles With Our Children – Negotiable vs Non-Negotiable Rules

The family unit can only run smoothly when respect, rules and a clear set of boundaries are firmly entrenched. In my previous post, Saying No to our

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March 3, 2011 13 Comments

Saying No to our kids – without the arguments, tears and tantrums

How often do we respond to a childs request by saying ‘no’ only to be worn down by negotiations, arguments, tantrums, whining and over-explaining?   Saying “no” translates instead to, “I’ll

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February 28, 2011 7 Comments

The grateful child – Can we teach our kids the art of gratitude?

Probably one of the more difficult lessons to teach our children is the art of gratitude. Can we in fact teach them to sit back,

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February 25, 2011 7 Comments

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