Thank you @mother.ly (Mother.ly) for the feature & for helping to shed light on the alternatives positive parenting has to offer! I am so grateful. Read the original article here or read on below: https://www.mother.ly/news/alternative-to-time-outs This TikTok mama's 'calming corner' is positive parenting goals by Heather Marcoux That's why TikTok user, Maarte Mami is going mega-viral this week, because this mama stopped doing time outs and set up a "calming corner" for her s

When my son came into my life l was a bit arrogant and was set on maintaining a strict, authoritarian "tiger mother" parenting style. It was almost as if no other options existed, and I was also quite proud of this style just due to inherited/generational thinking. I made a choice, when I realized I had one... Nearly 3 years into motherhood, I learned the so very hard way that this route was not the most effective, and it was not a necessary way to live. I made a choice, wh