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5 Things You can do NOW to Help Your Child Get Ready for School
It’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
There 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
As 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
Last 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
We 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
Capacity 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
Social 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
Today 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…
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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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Learning to Share (Sanely)
Children are certainly more likely to share when the person asking them to share is polite, they don’t have…