Do you find yourself worrying excessively about your child's homework and academic progress? Multiple studies suggest that homework doesn't significantly enhance academic knowledge. It's time to shift perspective. Homework can serve as an exercise to help children develop essential social emotional skills like perseverance, navigating challenging tasks, and handling emotions.
How do Children Feel Love
In a lot of my parenting consultations I find myself telling the parents that the best way to manage their concerns is to increase love and decrease consequences. This past month a parent ask me to be more specific about what love looks like for children. What did they have to do to choose love over consequences. I thought that maybe all of you would like the answer to this question so here are my answers:
Should You Label Your Child With a Diagnosis? (VIDEO)
Mistakes and how to explain them to a school age child (VIDEO)
How do I help my child be okay with making mistakes while learning? Watch to see how she would explain this to a school age child.
How to Make Decisions on Extra-curricular Activities?
One of the most popular questions in our online parenting support subscription and in parent consultations is how to manage after school activities. Here are my suggestions in how to think about them and how to make choices around them:
4 Tips on Making Back to School Successful
It's August, and time to get ready for school again. For some of you it's the first time you are taking your little one to school. You are taking your child to kindergarten, middle school, and/or high school. School has multiple transitions, so here are quick tips to get you to that first day of school:
Parenting and the Effects of Spending a Year in a Pandemic
Its been a long year for all of us. The globe has been dealing with the ups and downs of a pandemic. Our brain has been on high alert for a year plus whether we admit it to ourselves or not. A brain on high alert causes all of us to feel overwhelmed and tired. A hyperaware brain will either react in a rigid way or a chaotic way.
How to Help them Stop Negative Self-talk (Video)
Is your child negative? Always putting themselves down or giving up? Watch this 1+ minute video and learn how to help them out of negative self talk.
The Bursts and Regressions of a Child’s Development
My husband and I were speaking about our work. He is the Dean of Students at an independent school in Miami and I am the owner and founder of Stop Parenting Alone. We both found that we had the same experience this past month. Everyone had hit a wall. The teachers of those we each work with were asking, "When will this student finally change?" The students and my client's children were making mistakes, melting down, skipping classes, and simply making all sorts of poor choices. The parents in my parenting consultations and the online subscription were wondering what is wrong with my child, why aren't they progressing.
Four Questions Parents Can Answer for the New Year
If you're a parent I want to recommend looking back and processing your past year in an effort to grow. Like your child, parents need to grow and expand with each passing year. Primarily to keep up with your changing and growing child but also to continue your parenting journey and development.