Setting limits regarding screen time can protect your child’s health and help them live a balanced, happy life. There are many tools to limit what types of content your child can access and for how long. Teaching your child how to interact appropriately with digital media will also help them stay safe while living a modern life.

You may be bribing your child without even knowing it. But is it the same as rewarding them? You may be surprised to find there’s a fine line between the two that can make a huge difference.

You don’t need me to tell you to arrange the food into funny characters or picturesque scenes, make fruit into smoothies, or to blend veggies and include it in soup or something. Those tips are everywhere! I’m just going to cut right to the chase and give you 3 daring new strategies and explain why they are effective based on behavioral research.

You know the cereal aisle is always a tough one. Then there’s the chips aisle, the snack aisle, and don’t even get me started on the seasonal/ candy aisle. Not to mention the various treats conveniently placed throughout the store in easy-to-reach places for your little one (this is absolutely done intentional- they should be ashamed of themselves). And you’re a busy parent that just wants to grab the stuff and get out without arguing, compromising, yelling, threatening, or any other means you resort to just to survive your child’s challenging behaviors and stares from strangers.

It’s usually a series of events or behaviors that lead up to you losing your cool, especially when you have more than one child and one of them is misbehaving. I know you don’t want to lose your patience and you probably regret it later. It never feels good to yell and you wonder how it even got to that point in the first place. The good news is I’ve got a simple behavioral strategy you can implement anytime and anywhere that doesn’t involve any yelling— promise.