Choosing Child Care:
Choosing Child Care: Explore the importance of Play-Based Learning, Emergent Curriculum and Positive Adult-Child Relationships in Child Care
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Child & Parent Resilience
Social-Emotional Readiness: Setting the Stage for a Successful Start to School
Setting the stage for a successful school start with social-emotional readiness. Strategies to nurture emotion awareness with young children
Vacation Success 101: Tips for Planning a Fantastic Family Vacation with Young Children
Tips for planning a successful vacation with young children. Consider your child's temperament, developmental level and current state when p
Dealing with Childhood Anxiety - Part 1
A Guide for Parents and Caregivers Everyone experiences anxiety from time to time. Anxiety is our body’s normal reaction to perceived...
From Power Struggles to Life Lessons with Your Tween or Teen
Strategies to avoid power struggles with your tween or teen and teach valuable life lessons.
Go From Power Struggles to Co-operation with Young Children
Strategies to encourage co-operation and avoid power struggles with young children
POWER STRUGGLES - THERE ARE NO WINNERS
Power Struggles - There Are No Winners Power struggles occur when a child is determined to have their way and the parent insists on...
Motivation and the Slippery Slope of Praise
Good job! That makes me so happy! You are so smart! I love your picture! All of that positive praise must be good … right? What if I told...
How To Nurture Intrinsic Motivation
How To Nurture Intrinsic Motivation In the previous blog post I explained the difference between intrinsic motivation and extrinsic...
Intrinsic Motivation vs. Extrinsic Motivation
The intrinsic motivation to learn about the world around us begins in infancy. My 7 month old granddaughter explores for the pure...
MAKE PEACE WITH YOUR CHILD'S TEMPERAMENT
Temperament is your child’s unique approach to the world, their natural tendencies. Differences in temperament influence the way children...
Feelings - A Window To Your Child's Thoughts and Perspective
Feelings are a window into the inner thoughts and perspective of the child. When an adult attunes to the feelings of a child, that child...
5 Steps of Conflict Resolution
“That’s mine!” “I had it first!” “They hit me!” “Stop!” “MOM!” If you have multiple children, or work with groups of children, this...
How To Promote Growth Mindset
Carol Dweck coined the terms fixed mindset and growth mindset to describe the underlying beliefs people have about learning and...
5 Steps To Maintain Limits
In the last post I gave 5 tips for setting limits. It might seem like telling your child what to do would be easy, but how you do it...
5 Tips For Setting Limits
As parents, grandparents, caregivers we have a responsibility to teach and guide the children in our care, that includes setting limits....
5 STRATEGIES TO PROMOTE EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING
Resilience is often associated with big life events with stories of survival and growth during the most adverse situations. However, the...
Play-Based Learning - Strategies
Children need time to play. How do we find time to provide that in our busy days? Start by taking some of the pressure off of yourself...
Practical Approaches to Play-Based Learning
Welcome back to the series on play-based learning. In Practical Approaches to Play-Based Learning you will find tips for establishing...
Play-Based Learning: An Introduction
How to support optimal early childhood development Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning, but for...
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