Conscious Discipline

We are always looking for ways to define what we practice at Riviera PlaySchool. What we have is a unique meld of non violent communication, attachment parenting, mindfulness, abundance, gratitude, and self-awareness, along with the academic and structural aspects from Montessori, Waldorf, and Reggio Emilia.
I stumbled across a website by a woman named Becky Bailey, who happens to have authored a great description of what we do here at Riviera Playschool! Becky calls it conscious discipline, and it all starts with being who you want your children to become (Joseph Chilton Pearce).

100 Ways to Show you Care

Show your child you care. Create a connection today! (I’m going to!)

You Can’t Say You Can’t Play! Does setting this limit then make us the bully?

As parents and adults, we typically struggle a little with how to provide children the space to have their power, (and thus exclude) and also provide an opportunity for them to develop common ground. I think it is so important, of primary importance, to allow children to have as much power over themselves as possible. [...]

Developmental Checklist….am I making the grade as a parent?

When I read anything about parenting and child development, I spontaneously begin evaluating myself on my own parenting of my son. As I recently read a developmental checklist for early childhood, I felt the urge to pat myself on the back many times. But then I came to the piece about peaceful conflict resolution “Has [...]

Taking a Step Back

We all know that our children are not reflections of us, but every once in a while we get tricked into that lie again! It sneaks in, and we spring into RE-action, rather than mindful response.