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Coaching Kids Through Homework Hassles
Set your child up for success in the daily homework department. Choose to help your child manage homework in an easy way to avoid struggles. After a long day, neither parent nor child wants to hassle over homework with their school-aged child. By the end of the school day, most children are wiped out both physically and emotionally. It takes a lot of energy to make it through a 6+ hour day with constant stimulation, growing expectations and intense periods of required concentration, so it’s no surprise that doing additional work after school...
read moreNurturing the Self-Identity—Your Child’s Snapshots of You
Do you ever wonder how your child sees himself, and which images of you replay in her mind when she daydreams or think of you? When I speak to my children, I keep in my mind that as they see my face, my eyes, my expressions, their brains are clicking snapshots of me. Simultaneously, children are also associating feelings with those snapshots. All these information bits are stored in his or her brain and transforms into a child’s image of self. Have you ever consider if your child sees himself the way you see him? Children’s identities...
read moreCoaching Kids to Be Honest
“Where did you get that?” I don’t know. “Did you just hit your brother?” No. “Who colored on the wall?” It wasn’t me. If you’re the parent of a child in early elementary-school, you’ve likely heard all of these lines by now. As parents, of course we want our children to always tell the truth, but as we know, telling the truth isn’t always so easy. Fears of getting into trouble, embarrassment from committing the crime and wishing we truly didn’t do it, are all reasons that children, and even adults, may opt to lie...
read more5 Ways to Teach Your Child to Respond to the Needs of Others
Imagine three children on the playground. Child one falls off of a swing and lands hurt, on the ground. Child two and three, in shock, stop and stare. Child two immediately goes to the hurt child and cries with him, while touching his hand. Child three, after a moment of watching, goes back to swinging on the next swing over, like he was doing before. Child two is the better friend, right? Not necessarily, but he’s definitely better at being empathetic. Empathy is the ability to understand the feelings of others and at some level, feel...
read moreSupporting Your Child’s Friendships
While most parents know that it takes getting children together and supervising play for young children to form positive friendships, many parents may be surprised to learn that their relationship with their child can directly affect their children’s friendships. In the spring issue of The Early Child Research & Practice (ECRP) (http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v13n1/yu.html), a peer-reviewed multilingual journal on the development, care, and education of young children, Children’s Friendship Development: A Comparative Study ) cited three major...
read moreThe Parent Teacher Conference
If you search YouTube for “Parent Teacher Conferences,” you’ll find several animated and often quite humorous videos (Like this one: http://tinyurl.com/funnyconference) depicting scenarios from parent teacher conferences. They include outrageous and exaggerated examples of things like parents accusing teachers of picking on their children, to teachers accusing parents of not ensuring homework gets done, and everything in between. While these videos are clearly made up and designed to be funny, we all know that the best humor is almost...
read moreResponsiveness
RESPONSIVENESS By Lloyd J. Thomas, Ph.D. According to biologists, all living cells have the characteristic of “irritability”. This means each cell in our bodies responds to stimulation of some kind. Infants are born with the ability to respond to both internal and external stimulation. These responses develop from simple reflexes into complex patterns of speech, thinking, movement, and social habits. Children do not survive without stimulation of all the five sense and the consequent response patterns. Being stimulated...
read moreTODAY: Carolyn A. Brent’s new book Why Wait? launches on Amazon
I’m dropping you this short note to remind you that today, Tuesday November 15th, is the Amazon launch of the book Why Wait? The Baby Boomers’ Guide to Preparing Emotionally, Financially and Legally for a Parent’s Death by Carolyn A. Brent. To support Carolyn in the launch of this important book, many of us have come together to offer a wonderful collection of FREE gifts, including one from me, which are yours when you buy the book on the day of the launch. To buy Carolyn’s book, and receive all these free gifts, go to:...
read moreWhy Wait?
STARTS Today: FREE 3-Day Telesummit on Preparing for the Death of a Parent A little while ago I told you about my friend, author Carolyn A. Brent, whose book Why Wait? The Baby Boomers’ Guide to Preparing Emotionally, Financially and Legally for a Parent’s Death is having its big Amazon launch NEXT week on Tuesday November 15th. Admittedly, this book is on a topic all too many people would rather not talk about. But sadly, the fact that so few of us want to discuss the inevitable is actually the cause of many unnecessary...
read moreInterview with Carolyn Brent
Today I have the great pleasure of being the host on Day 6 of the Virtual Blog Tour of author Carolyn A. Brent whose book Why Wait? The Baby Boomers’ Guide to Preparing Emotionally, Financially and Legally for a Parent’s Death launches on Amazon on Tuesday November 15, 2011. Author Carolyn A. Brent, M.B.A. is a former clinical educational manager in the pharmaceutical industry. She is an avid activist and advocate working with the U.S. Congress for the purpose of creating change to protect seniors and veterans from financial and...
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