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Amber Traina

Certified Positive Discipline parent educator and coach; eldest granddaughter of Dr. Jane Nelsen and co-author of the new Positive Discipline edition's technology chapter.

Oct 13, 2026

19:26
Mm-hmm.
19:26
A- and I think that very often for parents, there's s- they're in- parents are inundated with recommendations around technology and recommendations about parenting, and, and just recommendations in general.
19:38
There's so much information out there.
19:40
It can feel really overwhelming, but when you dial it down, and I think this is where Positive Discipline really has something to offer parents, is that when you can dial it down to who you are as a parent, who your child is as an individual, and where you want your child to go, where you want your relationship to go, when you can build that roadmap, and Positive Discipline really helps parents do that, then you can check in with it and say, you know, "Am I on my course? Am I on our course? Are we on course?"

11 MINS LATER

31:18
Oh, yeah
31:19
... a kid and was starting.
31:20
So I actually wrote down, um, alternative phrases that I could use when those things were coming up, because they were coming up over and over, and I would keep it on a little piece of paper, and I would put it in my back pocket, and every night I would put it on my bed stand.
31:33
In the morning I would pick it up again, and I never had to actually pull it out of the pocket, just kn- the practice of doing it and knowing it was there was enough for me to sort of reprogram these phrases that were, had been programmed into me at some point.
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19:26
Mm-hmm.
19:26
And I think that very often for parents, there's s- they're in- parents are inundated with recommendations around technology and recommendations about parenting, and, and just recommendations in general.
19:38
There's so much information out there.
19:40
It can feel really overwhelming, but when you dial it down, and I think this is where positive discipline really has something to offer parents, is that when you can dial it down to who you are as a parent, who your child is as an individual, and where you want your child to go, where you want your relationship to go, when you can build that roadmap, and positive discipline really helps parents do that, then you can check in with it and say, you know, "Am I on my course? Am I on our course? Are we on course?"

11 MINS LATER

31:18
Oh, yeah
31:19
... a kid and was starting.
31:20
So I actually wrote down, um, alternative phrases that I could use when those things were coming up, because they were coming up over and over, and I would keep it on a little piece of paper, and I would put it in my back pocket, and every night I would put it on my bed stand.
31:33
In the morning I would pick it up again.

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