Below: Help your child develop the behaviors and skills that will help her thrive through the use of positive reinforcement. Bonus: You’ll get to stop nagging! “How many times have I told you to pick up that plate?” “Have you finished your homework yet? Come on! You need to get it done!” “Why isn’t your room […]
Four Fun Days in March to Celebrate With Your Kids
These days there’s a holiday for everything. Every day of the year has multiple things to celebrate, whether it’s National Pig Day (March 1st) or World Mosquito Day (August 20th). If you can dream it up, it probably already has a day assigned to it. While it’s silly to consider celebrating every special day, it […]
How to Teach Manners to Your Child Without Nagging
Below: Teach manners to your child with these tips that are nag-free! Before becoming parents, we all have certain expectations about what our children will be like. We envision what they’ll look like, who they’ll take after, and how they’ll behave. We know they won’t be perfect, but many parents-to-be have confidently uttered the phrase, […]
500+ Conversation Starters to Build Strong Connections with Your Kids
Below: Build deep and lasting connections with your kids with these conversation starters. As parents, we all desire to foster deep and lasting connections with our kids. When they’re babies, it’s relatively easy to feel like we know everything about them. After all, we are intimately involved in every aspect of their lives, from feeding […]
How to Help Your Child Make Friends at School
Below: If you want to help your child make friends at school try these tips to enhance their social and emotional skills. For school-age kids, playing is an important part of social learning. Kids are learning to work together while having fun at the same time. If your child seems a little reluctant to make […]
Ripple Effects: Teaching Kids to Understand the Consequences of Their Actions
“It’s not my fault!” Few words to come out of the mouths of children are as frustrating to parents as those ones. We want our kids to take responsibility for their actions, but often their instinct is to ‘deny deny deny.” Teaching our kids to take responsibility is a process that takes time and patience, […]
How to Get Your Child Talking After School
School is well underway and our children are gone for many hours at a time. When you finally see your little one walking out of school or getting off the bus, all sorts of questions are probably running through your mind. Did you learn something new? Did you make a friend? Did you eat your […]
One Simple Way to Teach Our Children to Be Giving
As parents, we all have similar goals for our children. We want them to be happy and healthy. We want them to be successful at something they love. We want them to be kind and to make the world a better place, even if it’s in some small way right in their own neighborhood. In […]
