Sandra Dye
MFT
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Parenting By Staying Connected With Your Kids Expert

Sandra Dye Quick Facts
- Career Focus
- Child, Adolescent, Family psychotherapy
Sandra L. Dye is a child, teen and parenting expert who completed her doctoral coursework at the Professional School of Psychology. She has extensive experience over her twenty-six years in private practice helping parents and their children use the positive power of connecting, to support and influence each other.
From her education and clinical work, Sandra has developed a 5-step system that she has used to guide families to understand one another and resolve conflicts. Her website, one-step-ahead-parenting.com is a problem solving, interactive site designed for parents, teens and tweens to connect, learn from and communicate with each other.
Sandra's 5-step system goes beyond other blogs and articles that provide simple one shot quick advice, to a single problem. Sandra has developed a teachable, systematic approach to help parents and children gain perspective and achieve effective solutions. Sandra believes that solutions are within every person. The challenge is helping each family member connect, define the problem situation, gain perspective and then get to the solutions.
Sandra's fundamental belief in parent's knowledge about their children led to development of a unique site that integrates expert knowledge and a proven 5-step system of parenting with each parent's knowledge of their children. Now, Sandra is fulfilling her lifelong passion and dedication to children and families by making her tools and skills accessible to parents and children worldwide.
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Parents and Backtalk: Five Stunningly Simple Ways to Turn Backtalk into Communication
If you think backtalk is something you have to endure as a parent or have to control with strict limits and consequences, you are mistaken. If you follow 5 simple steps in the proper order you will dramatically reduce backtalk and become closer with your child than you ever imagined. • Connect • Calm • Listen • Limits • Fresh Start Do you find your frustration building when the simplest request you make of your child results in backtalk? The natural response is to react to the backtalk by attempting to shut it down. After all, our goal is to stomp it out, right?
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Parents: The 3 Most Catastrophic Mistakes Parents Make And How To Avoid Them
In all the years I have been working with children and parents, I am amazed at just how many parents believe they can tell their children what to do and their children should just “do as they are told”. Well I am here to tell you: nothing could be further from the truth. Most of these parents who expect or demand compliance from their children are needlessly headed for frustration and ultimately disaster. The worst part is: it just doesn’t have to happen!
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5 Steps To Relief For Parents With A Clingy Toddler
One of the most difficult stages of raising a young child is from 18 months to 3 years old. During this time, it can feel like there is a ball and chain connecting you to your child. It can feel like you are under your child’s control. Your child seems to be dictating your every move, and actively restricting your movements. Clingy toddlers translate to exhausted parents.
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Transition Times-A Time For Learning
Transition times are often stressful for parents and children. Your child may experience transitions in many different ways. Their response may be of great excitement and anticipation which puts them in an emotionally charged or at the other end of the continuum, they might be so engrossed in their current activity that they are not ready to stop and move to another activity. If you have more than one child they will likely not both be ready at the same time.
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Making The Connection With Your Children
There are many different levels of connecting. When you call out to your child from another room you are not yet connected, you are just putting out what I will term a location finder signal. By the second and third times when you don't get a response, your frustration is rising. You are in reaction mode. Why weren't you getting a response? Possibly your child's music or television are too loud for you to be heard. Perhaps your child is on the phone, on the computer, watching a video or totally absorbed in some activity. The reality is that you are not connected yet.
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Sandra Dye
It is not life events that matter most, but rather, it is how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
We all seek to be understood. In being understood, we get to truly understand ourselves.
Once we lock down, stuck by our own closed system of thinking and feeling, we lose our ability to adapt to life's challenges and give away our power.
Growth requires that we take action. The action may be small or large. It is the consistency of our actions that lead to our greatest successes.
The mental images we paint for ourselves, the messages we tell ourselves over time become our beliefs. We must choose wisely the thoughts we feed ourselves.
Fears and anxiety happen. If you know there is no immediate action to take then hold tight. These feelings will become less intense when you wait. It is as if the pull of gravity brings them back down to earth where you can deal with them.
Contacting Sandra Dye
Sandra L. Dye MFT
Mission Hills Family Institute
39843 Paseo Padre Pkwy, Suite E
Fremont, CA 94538
http://one-step-ahead-parenting.com
http://www.Facebook.com/OneStepAheadParenting
http://www.Twitter.com/sandraldye
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