Improve Your Child’s Emotional Intelligence
Children and teens often have conflicting emotions. Managing their emotions may overwhelm them. Temper tantrums, bad moods, slammed doors and arguments can result. It is helpful to teach kids to recognize and voice their feelings in appropriate ways. One of those ways is to introduce them to the sophisticated notion of experiencing two feelings at […]
Connect With Your Kids: Send a Positive Note
In our class on positive reinforcement we discussed ways that we can boost our child’s self-esteem. The Moms in the class decided to write their children a note. They would describe all the positive things the child had done that day. Here are two examples of the notes that were written to their school aged […]
Go Ahead, Make Mistakes: Fostering Resilience in Our Children
In order to foster resilience in our children we need to have the right parenting philosophy. We need to be clear what our goals are for our children and what are job is as parents. Our main objective as parents should be to teach our children enough life skills so that they can manage one […]