Nancy Buck
PhD
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Parenting Expert
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- Parenting, children's motivation and behavior
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- Peaceful Parenting, Why Do Kids Act That Way?
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- Author, Parent Coach, Speaker, Trainer
Fresh, funny and unafraid: Nancy S. Buck, Ph.D. tackles the tough topics facing all families today. Dr. Buck earned a Ph.D. in developmental psychology with an emphasis on parenting. She is the founder of PEACEFUL PARENTING Inc which is based on her experiences as an educator, trainer and above all, parent. For more than two decades she has been a senior faculty member of the William Glasser Institute and has trained thousands of educators and other professionals in choice theory psychology, reality therapy, lead management and Glasser Quality Schools. Now she is applying this experience to PEACEFUL PARENTING®. Her mission? To make the world a better place one child and one parent at a time.
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***To TRUST Is a Choice
When your teenage son tells you that he is going to a friend's house to spend Saturday evening, how do you know he is where he tells you? When your daughter wakes up on a school day morning complaining of not feeling well, and you know she has a math test she has been worrying about, how do you know she is really sick? When your son tells you that he doesn't need to go to the bathroom before you are about to get into the car to run your household errands, can you trust his judgment? As parents, how do we know we can trust our children?
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***Grocery Shopping, Weekday Evenings and Other Family Hazards (Discipline with the Brain in Mind)
The best place to observe the wide range of parental discipline styles is any grocery store between the evening hours of four and seven.
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***Peaceful Parenting® Success Story
Naomi, mother of 5-year old frate al sons Zachary and Samuel, wrote and asked for advice on how to work more smoothly with her children. She then read PEACEFUL PARENTING® and shared the following success story:
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***Are You a Sculptor or a Gardener?
How do you describe your job as a parent? Do the tasks include protector and supporter providing food, warmth, and comfort? Do you see yourself as the guide and advisor for your child as she moves from childhood, through adolescents and into young adulthood? No matter what your child’s age or stage you probably consider your job to include all of these ideas and more.
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***How Is Peaceful Parenting® Different?
Peaceful Parenting® ideas are very different from other kinds of parenting practices that you have learned or read about. Certainly it is harder to practice Peaceful Parenting® than to simply threaten or bribe your child into following your directions or making what you consider to be the “right” choices. But what is the heart of the difference betwee Peaceful Parenting® and other programs?
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***How to help children learn to share
Most children are not sharers naturally. They do not come into the world ready, willing and able to share. There are those wonderful, rare exceptions (My own twin sons are an example. But then they started out sharing a womb so maybe that contributed to the idea of sharing.)
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***A Bullying Dilemma
Answering the knock on my back door one afte oon, I faced a woman new to me. “I want you to make your sons stop bullying my son,” she stated simply. I was shocked. My children were not bullies. I could see her car parked in the street with her son sitting in the passenger seat. I then saw my fourth grade identical twin sons standing in our driveway looking guilty as sin. Even though I found what this woman was saying hard to believe, I could see in my children’s faces that something was amiss.
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