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Sing! To Build Your Child’s Brain
Singing and songs form a big part of many people’s childhoods. And for good reason. Both children and adults…
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Why Being “Crafty” is Important for Kids
Doing arts and crafts projects is a great way for children to express their creativity and explore new materials…
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Encouraging Your Child to be Creative
Creativity is central to learning and problem-solving. It is the ability to take what we already know and apply…
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Getting Curious About Curiosity Can Make You Happier
Curiosity is “a state of active interest or genuinely wanting to know more about something”. And curiosity has a…
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The Hype About Happiness
Studies have shown that happiness has some pretty powerful effects on people’s lives, including making those lives longer and…
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KITS Changes Children’s Brain Activity!
We know from our research that the KITS Program helps children build better literacy and self-regulation skills before they…
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Busting Toxic Stress Effects on Children’s Social Skills
For children who have experienced trauma, also called toxic stress, learning social skills can be especially challenging. Trauma can…
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Two Easy, Low-Cost Stress Reducers and How to Increase Them in Your Life
Science has shown that there are two low-cost and fun ways to cut down on your feelings of stress:…
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Stress: Recognizing and Managing When You Have Too Much of It
Most people think that stress is bad. But that is not necessarily true. Some stress, under some circumstances, is…
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Tools for Boosting Children’s Power to Self-Regulate
Over the last few weeks we have been exploring the topic of self-regulation–the ability to control both our actions…