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ScottCounseling.com was created to serve you and provide solutions for your everyday problems.  ScottCounseling has trained, licensed, professional counselors available to assist you with options that will successfully bring about a solution for your counseling need.  ScottCounseling has help hundreds of individuals with questions about:

Children and Teens  Anxiety  Marriage  Depression  ADD/ADHD  Academic and Schools

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Parenting takes time and practice. Parents who become familiar with a variety of parenting discipline strategy and techniques successfully learned implemented by other parents are on their way to becoming a better parent. This article will assist parents in learning the “key discipline” techniques that may be used at home with children in an age span from toddlers to teens. Parents who have a desire to learn new discipline techniques and are consistent in educating themselves throughout their child’s developments will most often feel a sense of peace and well-being with their parenting style.

If you are having difficulty disciplining your child, it is important to remember that you may not be doing anything wrong. All children are… Continue Reading

Does your child ask the same question over and over again? Does your child keep asking you for something until you give up and give in? Child behavior and parenting coach Traci Gaffney has a different parenting perspective on responding to a child’s questions. Maybe parents should be grateful that children come to the parent with their “asking” voice. Children do go through a developmental phase when they ask more questions. Whether it’s to manipulate or to learn, at least they are asking.

Ask Six Times!

“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” W.C. Fields

We have all heard this quote before. Last year I was in a personal growth course where they said… Continue Reading

We love our own children and we ant them to be happy. To demonstrate our love we listen to them, help them with their homework, encourage them to participate in activities and, yes, give them “things” that they want. Parents, by law, must provide food and shelter. It is our role to make sure that our children attend school and follow curfew and other city and state ordinances. But, what about providing ipods, cell phones, cars and spending money. Are we really obligated to buy our child’s clothes at mall department stores where jeans often cost more than $70? Should we allow our child to participate in any activities that they desire at an… Continue Reading

Parenting life coach, Barbara Desmarais, shares her thought and experiences in coaching children to follow directions, be respectful and cooperate. Children are not much different than adults. When we have to follow orders that are barked out, not understood or thought to be unfair, we rebel. This article provides some parenting tips to help you work with an uncooperative child.

“I don’t have to do it!”

In speaking with parents a comment I frequently hear is “My child won’t listen!” Repeated attempts in trying to get a child to co-operate often lands on deaf ears and leaves parents feeling exhausted and helpless. Frequently we say things we later regret and become riddled with guilt. Usual attempts often include… Continue Reading

Do you have a demanding child?

It’s not unusual for Children to begin to make some kind of demanding remarks between the ages of two and four years of age. This behavior is often a test given by a child to test parent limits and boundaries. Children who are demanding often are seeking control or may be facing some stress in their life. Parents who avoid stopping a child’s inappropriate demands… Continue Reading

 Do your children know the rules for the road?

School bus drivers have set rules that the school children must follow for the safety of all who ride the bus.  Elementary students are taught these rules during the school day.  If a student does not follow these rules, they are told that they may have to have an assigned seat, be suspended from the bus or be expelled permanently from the bus.  Parents may train their children with similar rules.  Here are some parenting tips:

· Sit down with your child and let them know the purpose of riding in a car.  “Cars are used to get us safely from our home to where we want to be.”  Ask the child these questions:
1. What… Continue Reading