Archive for the 'conflict & communication' Category

Keeping My Eyes on the Prize

I admit to total frustration at times. When our daughter barks a command at her grand mother. Or yells at us after we have just gone out of our way to try to help her. Such experiences are not everyday but they happen… we just got back from staying with my mother in law, so […]

NVC bits

NVC or Non Violent Communication is a method pioneered by Marshal Rosenburg. We will be writing more about it in months to come but for now you can see three new additions relating to it including:

A definition on our quick definition page

10 steps for peace recommended by the Centre for NVC

An indepth comparison […]

lectures vs advice

Where as previously many of our opinions would have been interpreted as lectures, as we move towards greater unregulation we seem to have more freedom to constructively comment. Recently we had missed breakfast and went to a shop to get something. My daughter asked for a chocolate muffin. I reminded her that we had a […]