Give Yourself and Your Kids Grace
Give yourself grace? Give your kids grace? What does that mean? The pandemic has been rough on a lot of families. Thankfully, as more people get the COVID vaccine, we are beginning to cautiously venture outside our homes. Camps and activities for kids are becoming available during the summer. Even better, an increasing number of […]
Help Your Kids Develop the 2 Keys to Happiness According to Researchers Worldwide!
Would you like your children to grow up to be well-adjusted generally happy adults? Researchers have pinpointed two keys to human well-being—no matter how much money you make, education you have, or what culture you come from. And these keys are — drum-roll please — GENEROSITY and GRATITUDE. In fact, scientists can track what happens […]
5 Games that Build Kids’ Skills
I recently tuned into a webinar given by the National PTA. One of their presenters cited a survey given to parents that asked if they believed their children had learned the skills required in that grade by the end of the school year. 80 percent of parents marked the box that said, “Yes, my child […]
Self-Regulation—6 Simple Steps to Empower Your Child
Welcome to Part 3 (of 4) of the Brain-Friendly Ways to Good Behavior series. Have you ever been in public when your child had a meltdown over something someone said or did that you didn’t see coming? Has your child interrupted conversations as if he didn’t even notice people had been talking? Does your child […]
Use Poor Behavior to Create a Peaceful Home
Welcome to Part 2 (of 4) in the Brain-Friendly Ways to Good Behavior series. If you missed Part 1, you can find it here. In an earlier post, I wrote about my friend saying “Obstacle or Opportunity” whenever I ran into one of life’s little roadblocks. Whenever I’ve consciously chosen to see a setback as […]
How Kids’ Brains Work — 5 Ways to Get Quick Cooperation
Welcome to Part 1 (of 4) in the Brain-Friendly Ways to Good Behavior series. I sure wish we’d had the information parents have access to these days about how children’s brains function and learn. New studies are published almost daily. Our girls had to deal with a lot of trial and error when it came to […]
Boost Kids’ Self-Confidence with these 5 Ways to Teach Respect
Welcome to part 6, the final post in the Brain Stages Emotional Quotient Series. You’ve probably noticed the underlying theme for how to help kids grow into healthy emotional intelligence and improve your own as well is to model and talk about how to respect yourself and show respect to others. The Oxford Dictionary defines respect […]
Obstacle or Opportunity — Turn Setbacks into Celebrations
Welcome to part 4 (of 6) in the Brain Stages Emotional Quotient Series. You can click the following links if you missed Part 1: 6 Ways to Help Kids Develop Empathy, Part 2: 5 Ways to Help Kids Become Grateful and Generous, or Part 3 The Art of Listening: 3 Steps to Transform Relationships. The prevailing […]
The Art of Listening—3 Steps that Transform Relationships
Welcome to part 3 of the Brain Stages Emotional Quotient Series. (If you missed parts 1 or 2, you can click 6 Ways to Help Kids Develop Empathy or 5 Ways to Help Kids Become Grateful and Generous, respectively.) Researchers have found that EQ can be more important than IQ for success in today’s world. The best […]
5 Ways to Help Kids Become Grateful and Generous
Welcome to part 2 of the Brain Stages Emotional Quotient Series. (In case you missed it, here’s part 1: 6 Ways to Help Kids Develop Empathy.) You’ve likely heard that gratefulness and generosity make us happier, but did you know that scientists can track what happens in the brain when we practice these attributes?[1] When we […]
