How Do I Teach My Child About Being Safe?
How Do I Teach My Children to Want Healthy Meals and Snacks
Active Learning – Understanding Your Child’s Learning Style
The Back to School Game
Are your children excited, anxious, or a little bit of both as they head back to school? Each child experiences different emotions when it comes to school. Making school fun and exciting can help them work through their emotions and be more prepared for the…
Back to School – Tips for Teachers and Parents
Are you ready to go back to school? Going back to school can be an adjustment for teachers, students, and parents. Here are some tips to ease the transition from summer to school. Tips for Parents: 2-4 weeks before school starts, establish your child’s school…
Teaching Active Listening to Your Child
With all of the distractions in our modern world, we have become a community of people who don’t know how to focus and listen to others. Active Listening is an important life skill that you can teach your child – and help yourself, too! Before…
How Do I Teach My Child to Have Consideration for Others?
“Being considerate of others will take you and your children further in life than any college or professional degree.” – Marian Wright Edelman What does it mean to be considerate? Being considerate means to be careful not to cause inconvenience or hurt to others; showing…
How Do I Teach My Child Manners?
Manners are constantly changing from generation to generation and vary based on culture. Before we explore how to teach manners we need acknowledge that the manners that are important to some may be different from those we discuss. The universal ideas behind good manners remain:…
How Do I Help My Child Identify and Express Emotions?
There has been plenty of research over the years trying to pin down a list of emotions. Most agree are all born with emotions, but there is no common consensus about which emotions we are born with verses which emotions we learn. Many studies conclude…
How Do I Teach My Child to Be a Problem Solver?
Problem-solving by definition is “the process of finding solutions to difficult or complex issues.” Henry Kaiser states, “Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.” How do we turn problems into opportunities so our children become problem solvers? Children learn best through modeled behavior, which is…
