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Taking Care of Yourself So You Can Take Care of the Kids
As parents, we often feel that taking care of our children is the most important thing that we have…
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Your Kid + Encouragement = Success
Some kids need you to encourage their accomplishments with big celebrations when they are learning new skills. A two-minute...
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What’s So Scary About Summer Slide?
Summer slide. Sounds like it could be a fun water park ride. But parents hearing this term from schools...
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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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Even Parents Make Mistakes!
Over the past few weeks we have been talking a lot about providing space for our kids to make...
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Why Making Mistakes is Part of Getting Ready for Kindergarten (or Any Other Grade)
When you think about kindergarten readiness, chances are that the ability to make mistakes is not the first thing...
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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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Helping Your Child Learn with Picture Books-Infographic
To end our celebration of Picture Book Month, we present an infographic about how to embed learning while you…
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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…