Time out! How, When, and Why to Use Them

Time out is a parenting technique to encourage children to stop doing things that you don’t want them to do. When your child misbehaves, you can calmly remove your child from the activity and put them in time out. Your child usually will stop doing the behavior to avoid going into time out. Time out […] >> READ MORE

Adventures in Parenting: 3 and Under

Responding, Preventing, Monitoring, Mentoring, and Modeling. Five seemingly simple steps in parenting are rarely so simple! The system, known as “RPM3,” is outlined in the Adventures in Parenting series from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Some of our runners are as young as two years old, so many of our athletes’ parents […] >> READ MORE

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