Author Archive

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Daily Candy

Daily Candy recommends Ruby’s Studio: The Friendship Show

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Dealing With Frustration – Expert Facebook Chat

Need a little help navigating through your little one’s enormous outbursts of frustration? So do we! That’s why we’re hosting amazing parenting expert, Jennifer Waldburger, for a chat on our Facebook page Thursday, May 17th at 2pm PDT/5pm EDT. Join us to get your questions answered!

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Discussing Disaster With Our Children

Japan, Katrina, Southeast Asia and Thailand: it’s pretty scary to recount all the devastating natural disasters our world has faced in the past decade. What does the future hold for our little ones? When is the appropriate age to talk about how to react in an emergency, without engendering undue stress and fear? Melissa Brymer, Director of the Terrorism and Disaster Programs at the UCLA-Duke University National Center for Child Traumatic Stress, offers some helpful guidance through this difficult topic.

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Do Time-Outs Work?

How’s the time-out working for ya? If your experience is like lots of parents, you might be seeking alternatives to what often ends up in a battle of wills. Noel Janis-Norton shares how “earning privileges” is another good alternative to the much-debated Time-Out.

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Embracing Your Child’s Adoption Story

Carolyn Bransby’s life story provides a unique perspective on adoption as she is both an adoptive parent and adoption consultant. She shares with us her way to help kids embrace their adoption story.

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Event: Defiant to Cooperative in Three Steps with Noel Janis-Norton

Can it be?! Three steps to transform our kids’ behavior from defiant to cooperative? We’re there! Come join us for incredibly useful information on getting our kids to cooperate the first time we ask with renowned early childhood development expert Noël Janis-Norton.

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Event: Dr. Pamela Varady Discusses Positive Discipline

The Mother Company Presents: Positive Discipline: The Gateway to High Emotional and Social Intelligence.Come join us at The Pump Station on Wednesday, July 17, for a parenting discussion hosted by Dr. Pamela Varady.

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Examiner

Examiner outlines The Mother Company’s presence at The LA Times Festival of Books.

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Examiner

Examiner raves about When Miles Got Mad, saying it “offers much-needed comfort to young children as they struggle to regulate their emotions.”