Alyson Schafer

Holiday Dinner Table Manners

Eat… sit…. and be merry. Yes, its that time of year when we gather around the table and enjoy holiday dinner with our extended family. Joy right? Ahh, not so much, especially if you are stressed about your uncouth 7 year old son behaviour. Will he break bread or break wind, or worse, toss bread? [...]

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Exciting Upcoming Adlerian Parenting Events You Should Know About!

There are so many fantastic Adlerian parenting events coming up this November I wanted you to know about. Hopefully you’ll be able to catch some great parenting information at one of these venues: 1. Saturday, Oct. 5th – Kids & Company Parenting Event Kid’s & Company are hosting a parenting conference. The day includes breakfast [...]

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Discipline Do’s and Don’t's Twitter Chat With #ourkids – Oct. 18th at 8 p.m.

I’m excited to participate in my first “Tweet Chat” about discipline do’s and don’t’s on October 18th at 8 p.m. You can get all the details here. Join @OurKidsNet and follow the hashtag #ourkids and #edchat to join in. Be sure to have your parenting questions ready for me. Here is a preview of some of [...]

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Welcome to My New Site!

Yes, it was finally time to give my site an update. I hope you like the new look. You should find it easier to navigate and I’ve got even more resources I can share now, too. I still have some more information to post and a few little ongoing tweaks to make. If you notice [...]

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Happy Father’s Day: My Short List of What Dads Really Want

I want to wish all the dads out there a wonderful Father’s Day. Especially my three brothers, who are pictured here with me and our late dad, Dick Knight. As a former nursery school teacher, I know you’ll be getting a lot of decorated rock paper weights, ties and t-shirts painted with hand and foot [...]

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Ways to Say “No” Without Actually Saying It

I am sure some researcher has the exact number of times the average kid hears the word “no” in a day, but suffice it to say, it’s plenty!* Kids become immune to hearing “No.” And kids start to repeat what they hear when they say “no!” back to us. Oh how quickly our children learn that [...]

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Alyson Presents at TEDxKids in Brussels, Belgium

I’m very excited to be heading off to Brussels next week to present at the TedxKids event. The program looks awesome for the 56 students from 10 different nations including Tunsia, Turkey, Sweden and Romania who will be in the kid’s program. I’ll be speaking to the parents about “Honey, I Wrecked Kids” and discussing [...]

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NASAP in Victoria, B.C.

Last week I was in beautiful Victoria, B.C. at the historic Empress Hotel for the annual meeting of the North American Society of Adlerian Psychology (NASAP). It was a fantastic conference offering a pre-conference workshop with Drs. Dan Siegel and Martin Brokenleg, a first nations counsellor working with youth at risk who showed us his circle of [...]

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Still Use Stickers? Watch Daniel Pink’s RSA Presentation on Motivation

Do you or your child’s teacher still use sticker charts? Do you pay kids to make their beds or give them a smiley face on a chart for good behavior? It’s hard to persuade parents that this is not a good approach, so let me leave it to the master: Daniel Pink and his book [...]

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