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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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5 Things You can do NOW to Help Your Child Get Ready for School
July 2, 2018It’s July! Still plenty of time until school starts…right? Right! AND that means that there is still plenty of…
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Keep Summer Learning Going With a Family Reading Challenge
June 11, 2018There are a lot of different summer reading programs both at local libraries and nationwide that offer incentives for…
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Building Your Own Habits: 3 Ways to Strengthen Change Motivation
May 29, 2018As we’ve talked about in previous posts on the KITS blog, the way we talk to ourselves can have...
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Make Learning New Skills Manageable
May 14, 2018Last week we talked about how to use pre-teaching with your child to develop a new skill or behavior....
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Building New Habits with Pre-teaching
May 7, 2018We are 4 months and a week into 2018. Do you know where your New Year’s resolutions are? For...
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3 Ways You Can Help Children Build Resilience
March 11, 2018Capacity for resilience is built starting with our early relationships and experiences, which in turn affect our developing brain,…
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Using Picture Books to Teach Your Child Social and Emotional Skills
November 13, 2017Social and emotional learning includes a wide range of skills and abilities like: self-awareness, social awareness, self-management, relationship skills,…
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Tips for Handling an “I-Don’t-Want-to-Stay-at-School” Meltdown
September 19, 2017Today your usually compliant daughter turns into a crying, howling, falling-on-the-floor-refusing-to-get-up wild child. She keeps saying that she wants…