Marvin Marshall
Ed.D.
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Discipline and Parenting Without Stress Expert
Marvin Marshall Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Parenting, Discipline, Raising Responsible Children
- Best Sellers
- Discipline Without Stress® Punishments or Rewards; Parenting Without Stress®
- Career Focus
- Improving Education and Parenting
- Affiliation
- National Speakers Association
Testimonials from people around the world have categoried me as an expert in promoting responsible behavior, using authority without coercion, improving relationships, and becoming more effective in both one’s professional and personal life.
Discipline and Parenting without Stress are unique in that (1) it is a system, rather than a number of techniques, (2) the system is totally noncoercive—but not permissive, and (3) when necessary, uses authority without coercion—as in of bribes to control, threats, or imposed punishments.
My major books are:“Discipline Without Stress® Punishments and Rewards: How Teachers and Parents Promote Responsibility & Learning ” and “Parenting without Stress®: How to Raise Responsible kids While Keeping a Life of Your Own.”
I am a parent and former, elementary, middle, and high school classroom teacher on all levels, in many subjects, and in a variety of socio-economic areas—urban (Los Angeles and Harlem in New York), suburban, and rural.
My experiences also include service as a middle and high school counselor with certification by the William Glasser Institute in Choice Theory, Reality Therapy, and Lead Management.
I have also served as an elementary, middle, and high school principal and as a district director of education.
My return to the classroom after 24 years from my various counseling, administrative, and staff-development positions led to the creation of my approach that is now used in most of the United States and in 25 countries on five continents.
Learn more at http://marvinmardshall.com and at http://disciplineonline.com
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Visualization Activities Make Brain Compatible Learning Easy, Fun, and Engaging
Brain compatible learning infers that learning will take place in a manner that is "natural." Unfortunately, however, many teachers expect students to learn in an "unnatural" way. Let me explain by asking you to visualize the last time you dreamed. Not that you remember your dream, but did you dream in letters, in words, in sentences, in paragraphs? Or did you dream in pictures? We often forget that the act of reading is a relatively recent development in human development. Until recent years, very few people read. Reading is not a "natural" brain activity as is visualization.
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The Brain, Sleep, and Learning
The effects of sleep on learning and memory are impressive. Recent discoveries show that sleep facilitates the active analysis of new memories, allows the brain to solve problems, and infer new information. The "sleeping brain" may also be selectively reinforcing the more difficult aspects of a newly learned task.
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Create a Learning Climate to Foster Student Success
If learning is what we value, then we ought to value the process of learning as much as the result of learning. By nature, people are attracted to activities where they feel free of psychological or emotional pain. Learning is promoted in a climate where people feel safe and cared for. The adage, “People don’t care what you know until they know you care,” is applicable.
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Instilling Responsibility in Today’s Children
If you find that disciplining your children and fostering a sense of responsibility in them is stressful or unsuccessful, the use of traditional parenting approaches may be the problem. Why? Because traditional parenting approaches, including using lectures, rewards, and punishments, rely on exte al motivators to change the child’s behavior and aim to obtain obedience and compliance.
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A New Generation – A New Approach to Parenting
With any task in life, the approach you use helps determine the outcome. Parenting is no different. Your parenting approach may determine what the young person becomes. Today’s parents have two models of discipline from which to choose. The older approach uses rewards and punishments—the same kind used with animals. Its ultimate goal is obedience. This approach leads to dependence, along with stress, and often poor relationships.
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One Trick for Helping Children Develop Self-Discipline
We have the freedom to choose how we act, what we say, how we respond to situations, how we treat other people, and how we deal with an impulse. We also choose our self-talk.
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Stop Lecturing Your Kids and Start Listening
If I were limited to one recommendation that would improve relationships between parent and child, especially with teenagers, it would be listen to learn. Listening and valuing young people’s feelings and ideas is what promotes the ability of parents to effectively communicate with them.
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Help Your Children Avoid the Trap of Perfectionism
A major dilemma young people face is a desire to be perfect. This obsession hinders them and can have disastrous results. For example, consider this letter I received from a parent:
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Restorative Justice in Schools
Restorative Justice is a discipline program that is gaining support in urban schools across the nation. The reason it is gaining acceptance is that a disproportionate number of minority students are being punished for inappropriate and irresponsible school behaviors, and federal guidelines are attempting to reduce the problem.
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Elicit Consequences Rather tha Impose Punishments
When teachers impose “logical” and/or “natural” consequences on students, they are using their authority to impose a form of punishment. It matters not if the adult’s intention is to teach a lesson. Imposed punishments increase the likelihood that the student will feel punished by the adult. Anything that is done to another person prompts negative feelings of reluctance, resistance, resentment, and sometimes even rebellion and retaliation. In addition, when authority is used to impose, it deprives the student of an opportunity to become more responsible.
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10 Discipline Approaches to Avoid
If you’re looking for some discipline help so you can increase motivation, responsibility, and learning in young people, then stay away from the following 10 counterproductive discipline approaches. 1. BEING REACTIVE Parents and teachers too often become stressed by reacting to inappropriate behavior. It is far more effective to employ a proactive approach at the outset to inspire children to want to behave responsibly and then use a non-adversarial response whenever they do not. 2. RELIANCE ON RULESr
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Rules, Stress, and Parenting
When raising and disciplining children, many parents rely on rules. In reality, though, the use of the term “rules” in parenting is often counterproductive. Rules are used to control, not inspire. Although essential in games, rules are counterproductive in relationships. Think of it this way: If a rule is broken, a mindset of enforcement is naturally created. The adult’s thinking goes something like, “If I don’t do something about this, it will occur again and I’ll lose my authority.” The situation between the adult and child immediately becomes adversarial.
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Don't do things for young people that they can do for themselves.
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People who use Discipline Without Stress as taught in http://disciplineonline.com discover the program life-changing because they use many of the techniques in both their personal and professional lives. This 4-hour program—divided into 54 short modules—teaches how to influence others to do what you would like them to do because they want to do it. The coercive punishment culture prevalent in many schools and homes is significantly reduced because adults serve as developers of good character rather than as police officers enforcing rules