Bill Corbett's Creating Cooperative Kids

I'm Bill Corbett, the author of the book LOVE, LIMITS & LESSONS: A PARENT'S GUIDE TO RAISING COOPERATIVE KIDS and I've spent over 25 years working with parents and teachers with children with challenging behaviors. How would you like to have your children in bed on time most nights and to STAY in bed? Then you're going to enjoy listening to the solutions I have to offer in this episode.  It's bad enough that we parents are soooo tired at the end of the day. And if the bedtime routine that you've been dealing with, seems to go on for hours, parenting in your home could be a nightmare with endless yelling. As in most pareting tips that I offer, success with your kids means setting things up in advance is key. Successful routines start with rules, boundaries and patterns that children can follow. So when you're creating routines, you'll be more successful with your children if you practice them with the kids in advance and as often as you can. Children learn by watching and then participating in somewhat of

I'm Bill Corbett, the author of the book LOVE, LIMITS & LESSONS: A PARENT'S GUIDE TO RAISING COOPERATIVE KIDS and I've spent over 25 years working with parents and teachers with children with challenging behaviors. One of those challenging behaviors really drove ME crazy until I figured it out what to do about it. So how would you like some solutions to help you deal with your kids messy room and too many toys?  In order for this to happen, I first need to get you to consider the fact that children don't naturally understand the importance of being organized and structured. They have to learn this over time, some of it from the adults caring for them and a whole lot more organically on their own. It takes time for them to develop this skill and it takes lots of patience on the part of the adults caring for them.  One day I had had it with my daughter's messy room. I couldn't stand walking by the doorway to her room every day and seeing all the chaos. As I did, I remembered how my parents forced me to clea

I'm Bill Corbett, the author of the book LOVE, LIMITS & LESSONS: A PARENT'S GUIDE TO RAISING COOPERATIVE KIDS and I've spent over 25 years working with parents and teachers with children with challenging behaviors. By listening to this creating cooperative kids podcast, you'll learn techniques for getting your kids to cooperate with you and the result will be having children who are more loving and fun to be with. These techniques are respectful to both you and your child and when practiced over and over, you'll find yourself with more peace and calmness in your home, or in your classroom if you're a teacher.  Kids and teens are naturally self-centered. But with kids increasing use of social media, it's gotten even worse. Constant selfies, posts, focusing on number of likes and the ease of creating videos, it's now called the ME GENERATION and it's even harder to teach our children to think more about others and less about themselves.  One way that parents can help to increase the empathy in their childre

I'm Bill Corbett, the author of the book LOVE, LIMITS & LESSONS: A PARENT'S GUIDE TO RAISING COOPERATIVE KIDS and I've spent over 25 years working with parents and teachers with children with challenging behaviors. By listening to this creating cooperative kids podcast, you'll learn techniques for getting your kids to cooperate with you and the result will be having children who are more loving and fun to be with. These techniques are respectful to both you and your child and when practiced over and over, you'll find yourself with more peace and calmness in your home, or in your classroom if you're a teacher.  One day my 8-year-old daughter didn't arrive home from school as she normally did. I was working from home on this day and quickly became worried. I headed down the street and began retracing her steps back to the local elementary school. As I approached a tall fence that surrounded a ball field, I saw her at the back of the field and began to run toward her. She was being held down by three taller

I'm Bill Corbett, the author of the book LOVE, LIMITS & LESSONS: A PARENT'S GUIDE TO RAISING COOPERATIVE KIDS and I've spent over 25 years working with parents and teachers with children with challenging behaviors. By listening to this creating cooperative kids podcast, you'll learn techniques for getting your kids to cooperate with you and the result will be having children who are more loving and fun to be with. These techniques are respectful to both you and your child and when practiced over and over, you'll find yourself with more peace and calmness in your home or in your classroom if you're a teacher.  On today's episode, psychotherapist Lisa Barrett and I got together to offer parents some advice who feel like their children are driving them crazy. We came up with six specific things that parents can begin practicing immediately and if they do, they may see immediate changes in their child's behavior. Lisa is a licensed professional counselor and registered art therapist, and author of the new boo

I'm the author of the book LOVE, LIMITS & LESSONS: A PARENT'S GUIDE TO RAISING COOPERATIVE KIDS and you're listening to the cooperative kids podcast. How would you like to have some easy-to-implement tools in your parenting toolbox to help you gain your child or teens cooperation when you're in a rush or need to suddenly change gears? That's what you're about to learn in this episode. As a parent educator and behavior specialist, I spent over 25 years talking to parents about the things that frustrated them most about their kids. And it was easy for me to agree with them, having 3 children of my own who drove me absolutely crazy. The fact is that children don't naturally transition well and parents need some strategies for helping them to do this. In this episode I'm speaking to a group of parents and teachers who invited me to offer advice on creating cooperative kids. Here are some solutions to helping children and teens to transition easier. Thanks for listening to this podcast episode. To summarize qu

I'm Bill Corbett, author of the book love, limits, & lessons, a parent’s guide to raising cooperative kids.  Thanks for downloading and listening to this podcast. Author, educator and professional speaker, Dan Blanchard stopped by my studio the other day and we found ourselves talking about how some parents equate love to buying things for their kids. The holidays are getting closer and we’ve both seen absent parents swooping in to shower their children with all sorts of gifts and presents, and then swooping back out to being invisible again. These kinds of parents find it difficult to make the experience of being with their children and listening, the real gift. Our hope for this episode is that some absent and busy parents might hear our conversation and then make the decision to buy less and be 100% present more. Adults might think that their kids want the gifts and money more, but what they really want is a parent’s silent attention, their smile, their confirmation that they hear them and their loving

This episode is a cut from a live presentation to a large group of Alabama preschool teachers. I introduced them to someone who inspired me in creating my LOVE, LIMITS & LESSONS program and how he taught us to see what's behind a child's misbehavior and how to create cooperation without punishment or reward. I'll also discuss how to create more self-control for children and then explain the difference between PROACTIVE AND REACTIVE parenting. Finally, I bring out my traditional PARENTING TOOLBOX and demonstrate what should be removed from that antiquated set of discipline tools.

Whether its summertime or just a professional day, youth expert and friend Dan Blanchard and I talk about ideas on keeping kids engaged while at home. Dan is a friend of mine and a speaker and author on several books on youth. Having your child at home is an ideal opportunity to connect with them in a way that allows them to explore and expand their horizons. We offer some ideas in this podcast episode to help parents get their ideas flowing.

Author and speaker Dan Blanchard and I sit down and talk about his new book THE STORM: HOW YOUNG MEN BECOME GOOD MEN. My friend Dan is an award-winning author, speaker and educator who shares real-life lessons and inspiring stories in his latest book in the GRAND DADDY series. Through his work, his goal is to positively influence the way we think about what is possible, regardless of how old we are. Dan has seven educational degrees and has been an inner-city school teacher and athletic coach for over 20 years. You can find his book on Amazon and Audible today.

I had a chance to talk with Marnie, a terrific mom of an 8-year-old boy. We discussed the challenges of raising a child with two households.

INTERVIEW PART II (of III) - Listen to Bill Corbett's interview on WAPJ Talk Radio where he offered up 8 tips for happier holidays with kids.  In this second of 3 parts to the interview, Bill offered up the next 4 of the 8 tips. Bill Corbett is the author of the award-winning parenting book series, LOVE, LIMITS, & LESSONS: A PARENT'S GUIDE TO RAISING COOPERATIVE KIDS (in English and in Spanish) and the executive producer and host of the public access television show CREATING COOPERATIVE KIDS. The first in his book series recently received the PARENT TESTED/PARENT APPROVED seal of approval for outstanding family products. As a member of the American Psychological Association and the North American Society for Adlerian Pscyhology, Bill provides parent coaching and keynote presentations to parent and professional audiences across the country. He sits on the board of the Network Against Domestic Abuse, the Resource Advisory Committee for Attachment Parenting International, and the management team of the Spri