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Handling Your Kid’s Disappointment When Everything Is Canceled
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Handling Your Kid’s Disappointment When Everything Is Canceled

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Handling Your Kid’s Disappointment When Everything Is Canceled

Heather2020-04-11T17:12:07-05:00April 11th, 2020|Categories: Parenting|Tags: community, empathy, parenting|

School and events are shutting down, impacting children in unexpected ways. Here’s how to deal with the letdown. By Erinne Magee March 18, 2020 • Taken from the New York Times When I told my 10-year-old daughter that her elementary school would be shutting down for two weeks, she didn’t seem to mind. But after Lexi had time to process the news and realized a friend’s birthday party, a dance competition and the “Jump Rope for Heart” fund-raiser at school were also looped into the [...]

Want to Raise Thoughtful, Well-Adjusted Children? Let Them Hear You Say These 11 Things, According to Parenting Experts
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Want to Raise Thoughtful, Well-Adjusted Children? Let Them Hear You Say These 11 Things, According to Parenting Experts

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Want to Raise Thoughtful, Well-Adjusted Children? Let Them Hear You Say These 11 Things, According to Parenting Experts

Heather2020-04-11T17:29:27-05:00March 1st, 2020|Categories: Parenting|Tags: brain development, education, parenting, phrases|

I recently wrote about what parents should let their kids see them doing to role-model well-adjusted behavior and have been planning this follow-up piece. Why? Because helping children to grow up successful and levelheaded is about ensuring they see you doing and saying certain things. Plenty has been written about what not to say in front of your children but not so much on the opposite. So I enlisted the help of parenting experts Patrick A. Coleman, parenting editor at Fatherly.com, and Daniel Wong, author [...]

Anxiety & Anxiety Disorders in Children: Information for Parents
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Anxiety & Anxiety Disorders in Children: Information for Parents

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Anxiety & Anxiety Disorders in Children: Information for Parents

Heather2020-04-11T17:42:43-05:00February 1st, 2020|Categories: Parenting|Tags: empathy, parenting, research|

By Thomas J. Huberty, PhD, NCSP Indiana University Anxiety is one of the most common experiences of children and adults. It is a normal, adaptive reaction, as it creates a level of arousal and alertness to danger. The primary characteristic of anxiety is worry, which is fear that future events will have negative outcomes. Anxious children are much more likely than their peers to see minor events as potentially threatening. For example, giving a brief oral report might be slightly anxiety-producing for most children, but [...]

Three Important Points for Toddler and Primary Parents
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Three Important Points for Toddler and Primary Parents

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Three Important Points for Toddler and Primary Parents

Heather2019-12-05T16:41:10-06:00September 5th, 2019|Categories: Montessori, Parenting, Raintree|Tags: parenting, separation|

1. Quiet and Peacefulness Essential Montessori called the classroom a “children’s house,” a warm and inviting place scaled to the child’s size. Our job is to protect and nurture this special place. Please help us by…. Being quiet when you enter Raintree. Noise in the hallway distracts children who are working and awakens children who are sleeping in the afternoon. Please help us follow the same guidelines the children follow during the day by being quiet in the hall. Giving your full attention to your [...]

Seven Harmful Traits
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Seven Harmful Traits

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Seven Harmful Traits

Heather2019-12-05T16:30:07-06:00September 5th, 2019|Categories: Parenting|Tags: community, grit, parenting, self-regulation, soft skills|

by Maren Stark Schmidt Ever notice how a word, a phrase, a quote or a book title keeps popping up? Over the past couple of years the following Gandhi quotes keeps showing up in my studies. Every time I read these seven statements I am astounded at the wisdom conveyed in so few words. Gandhi is attributed with saying that these seven characteristics, the most spiritually perilous traits to humanity: Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Knowledge without character Commerce without morality Science without humanity [...]

Interruption Disruption: Why You Should Never Interrupt a Child at Work
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Interruption Disruption: Why You Should Never Interrupt a Child at Work

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Interruption Disruption: Why You Should Never Interrupt a Child at Work

Heather2019-12-05T16:42:17-06:00August 4th, 2019|Categories: Parenting|Tags: concentration, flow, parenting|

By Catherine McTamaney Imagine it: you’re at your work, fully absorbed in the task in front of you. Your attention is focused on your project. You’ve finally hit a pace and you’re getting it done. And the phone rings. What happens to your work? For most adults, getting interrupted from our work means broken momentum. The rhythm of our work is disrupted. It’s hard to get back on track. If we’re concentrating deeply, absorbed in our work, the impact is even more significant. We may [...]

Let Children Get Bored Again
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Let Children Get Bored Again

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Let Children Get Bored Again

Heather2019-08-04T22:34:54-05:00March 4th, 2019|Categories: Parenting|Tags: creativity, parenting, self-regulation|

Boredom teaches us that life isn’t a parade of amusements. More important, it spawns creativity and self-sufficiency. By Pamela Paul “I’m bored.” It’s a puny little phrase, yet it has the power to fill parents with a cascade of dread, annoyance and guilt. If someone around here is bored, someone else must have failed to enlighten or enrich or divert. And how can anyone — child or adult — claim boredom when there’s so much that can and should be done? Immediately. But boredom is [...]

Why Are Kids Impatient, Bored, Friendless, and Entitled?
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Why Are Kids Impatient, Bored, Friendless, and Entitled?

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Why Are Kids Impatient, Bored, Friendless, and Entitled?

Heather2019-02-28T10:53:17-06:00February 28th, 2019|Categories: Parenting|Tags: brain development, parenting, technology|

By Victoria Prooday Kids today are in a devastating emotional state! Most come to school emotionally unavailable for learning. There are many factors in our modern lifestyle that contribute to this. I am an occupational therapist with years of experience working with children, parents, and teachers. I hear the same consistent message from every teacher I meet. Clearly, throughout my time as an Occupational Therapist, I have seen and continue to see a decline in children’s social, emotional, and academic functioning, as well as a [...]

How to Encourage Kids to ‘Give Back
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How to Encourage Kids to ‘Give Back

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How to Encourage Kids to ‘Give Back

Heather2019-02-28T11:14:50-06:00December 28th, 2018|Categories: Parenting|Tags: Grace and Courtesy, parenting, soft skills|

Washington Post "On Parenting," Journalist Amy Joyce Here are tips from the Family Dinner Project, a grassroots movement to encourage eating well and talking over dinner about things that really matter, about how to encourage children to give back. Text or call someone you appreciate. Talk about people your family appreciates, then take the time to text or call them, telling them so. Talk as a family about the person’s reaction and how it felt to share your gratitude. Discuss ways to “pay it forward.” Explain that [...]

The One Question Every Parent Should Quit Asking
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The One Question Every Parent Should Quit Asking

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The One Question Every Parent Should Quit Asking

Heather2018-06-28T12:42:48-05:00June 28th, 2018|Categories: Parenting|Tags: love, parenting|

By Scott Dannemiller “It’s like she’s not even practicing.” Audrey’s piano teacher was standing in front of me, giving her honest assessment. Her eyes were kind, and her voice soft, but my parental guilt turned her statement into a question. One I couldn’t answer. So I just faked a diarrhea attack and ran to the restroom. Once we got home, I was determined to show Miss Amanda that my daughter could be the next Liberace, only more bedazzled than the original. So we opened her [...]