Situation: A father has found that his 2-year-old son doesn’t want to play with his 4-year-old brother with Down syndrome. Parent Talk Tip: The character trait of tolerance helps children realize that everyone is at different stages of development. To develop tolerance, Diane Moore suggests the parent and younger son ...
Situation: Siblings with a six-year age difference have difficulty playing together. Parent Talk Tip: Diane Moore suggests the mom ask the older sibling to teach the younger child. Moore offers examples such as setting the table, then advises the mom to lavish praise on the older child for being a good teacher. Diane Moore ...
Situation: Twelve-year-old daughter walks to the bus stop on a possible snow day and leaves to stay at a friend’s house all day without telling her parents. Mom wants to know how to curb this behavior before it becomes dangerous. Parent Talk Tip: Diane Moore believes that the daughter doesn’t ...
Situation: A 12-year-old girl is pet-sitting for a neighbor. Besides eating the neighbor’s food, she also made a mess in the neighbor’s home. When confronted, she lied to three different people. The caller asks for suggestions on how he should discipline his daughter. Parent Talk Tip: Diane Moore suggests that the 12-year-old has demonstrated ...
Situation: Your kids are fighting and you don’t want to nurture aggression or weakness. How should you respond? Parent Talk Summary: Anytime you do something different with your kids, it gets their attention. Say “freeze!” for example, instead of “stop it.” Tell aggressor to “Hold it right there. You’re a ...
If your grade schooler is a little lawyer, he or she could be going through the “black vs. white, good vs. bad, win vs. lose, right vs. wrong” stage. It could also be their competitive nature, but when a kid is at this stage it can get between friendships, family ...
Parents’ response to fights can nurture weakness or aggression. Situation: When kids are fighting a parent’s response can nurture the wrong behavior. Parent Talk Tip: Family counselor Diane Moore tells a typical example of a parent that “gets on” the mean one and “huggin’ up” the victim. She says parents ...
Situation: Homeschooling mom is exhausted because kids are fighting. Parent Talk tip: Have a homeschool class on fighting. Teach the kids how to fight. In the business world, it’s called negotiating or communicating. For a parent, it’s part of discretion – learning what works, what doesn’t and doing things that ...
For most children it’s an everyday occurrence to spend time in front of a television or game screen. What happens when their parents’ values and belief systems clash with those offered up by the entertainment industry? Parents who struggle with this clash of cultures can turn to family life counselor ...
“I tell my kids over and over, but they don’t listen.” This is what parents say all the time when they come to see Diane Moore at her private counseling practice in Vancouver. But parents don’t have to repeat themselves three and four times to get their kids to obey. In fact, ...
In this full version of the audio interview, certified family life counselor Diane Moore talks about coping with suicide and why it’s such a difficult topic to talk about. Moore says at its core, suicide is problem solving. She said teens idealize suicide as the solution to their problems because, ...
Summary: Family Life counselor Diane Moore explains why the character trait of discretion is so important to instill in your children. If children were “mini-you’s,” parenting would be so much easier because children would automatically understand what parents are trying to communicate. Parent Talk Tip: Parents need the character trait ...
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