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“What Do You Do When…?”: Helping Your Child to Build Self-Monitoring Skills
October 14, 2019Do you find yourself constantly repeating instructions to your child (or student) about everyday routines? That was a rhetorical...
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How (and Why) to Raise Independent Kids
October 7, 2019Among the most important outcomes of our job as parents and educators is to raise children who grow into...
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Summer Activities to Get Ready for School
June 3, 2019For the past couple of summers, we have talked about summer slide and how to prevent it. (The answer...
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A Kid’s Guide to Fixing Problems with Friends
May 29, 2019We all make mistakes sometimes and even our best friend in the world can get sad or mad at…
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How to Make Compliment Cupcakes
May 6, 2019When I give my 6-year-old a compliment, I love how his face lights up. He walks a bit lighter...
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3 Essential Social Skills for Kindergarten (and Life)
May 6, 2019Having friends is not only essential to having a good transition to kindergarten, but also to lifelong success and...
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15 Ways to Practice Social Emotional Skills With Your Child
April 8, 2019Social and emotional skills are a big topic in early education these days, and for good reason. Children need…
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Ready for Kindergarten with Super Social Emotional Skills
April 1, 2019Recent research about the things that help kids to be successful in school shows that academics aren’t the whole…
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School Readiness Rocks!: How Painting Rocks Can Help Build Skills
March 11, 2019By now, you have seen our post about our fun activity for the month: KITS Rocks! We started this...
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Listening to Yourself
February 25, 2019All month we have been talking about listening: gaining tools and insight into being an active listener; learning the...