3 Can't-Miss Parenting Tips From 2024

Season's greetings, amazing parents!  This week is bustling with holiday activities for many, and it's important to prioritize time with loved ones.  Therefore, this week's episode will be concise, but I have a special holiday gift for you.  If you missed any of the 2024 Parenting With Psychology blogs, I'm excited to share three of my top tips to empower you to parent with intention and confidence using psychology-backed strategies.  As the holiday rush winds down, perhaps you'll find a little downtime to explore these essential parenting strategies, setting the stage for an incredible 2025.  I’ll tell you briefly about each post and provide the links to them so you can check them out next.

First, the steady climber: One post from this year has been tireless, steadily reaching more and more parents and helping many new people find my website.  The post’s topic is How to Handle a Kid Who Says "Watch Me" Non-Stop.  Whether your child is more prone to attention-seeking behavior than typical or falls more along the average range for asking you to watch them, kids, in general, demand a lot of our attention, so this topic appeals to most parents.  I’ve got you covered with five practical tips to help you feel less overwhelmed by your child’s pleas for attention.  I bet some of them will be new to you, so be sure to check them out to grow your parenting toolbox.

Second, I picked the topic I believe to be one of the most important psychology-backed strategies for all parents to understand.  It has a very academic title, which deters some people, but if you can switch to high school or college student mode for a short period, your mind will be blown by how useful learning operant conditioning theory is.  There are endless applications to parenting, and I’ll run through very concrete examples to get you started in Parenting Secret: Operant Conditioning 101.  It’s a little longer than my typical post, but trust me, it will be well worth your time.  You will use these new positive discipline strategies literally every day as a parent!

Finally, I poured over my analytics and found the post with the most positive feedback.  There were three posts that were very close, but the winner was Are You An Amazing Parent.  It talks about how to use problem-solving strategies and a growth mindset to become more confident in your parenting.  Growth mindset is a popular term in schools these days, but did you know that it can also be applied to parenting?

Okay, now it’s time to decide which post to read first.  Enjoy the rest of the holiday season with your family, and keep up the good work on your amazing parenting journey!