For the Youth Connections Magazine’s summer issue, we are discussing how you promote responsible decision-making skills in our children and teens. The article offers some guidance on children’s developing sense of what to base their choices on, how parents can support that development along with specific age/stage tips for promoting this essential life skill. Here’s …
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Extracurricular activities – whether before school or after school or in the community – are implicitly optional. They are, as the word implies – “extra” – in addition to school. As a parent, the choices can be freeing and helpful or confusing and challenging and perhaps, a little of both. And to add to the complexity, our …
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Category: Building a Positive Family Environment Tags: After school programs, Before school programs, children's interests, Children's safety, Choices, Competence, Cooperation, Extracurricular activities, Free time, Music, Quiet Time, Social and Emotional Skills, Sports, Teams
If you have a problem, don’t muddle through. Here’s a simple rap about what to do. Stop, calm down before you act. You’ll think more clearly – that’s a fact. Say the problem and how you feel. Set a positive goal (and try to be real). Now for some “brainy” contributions, make out a list …
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Category: Modeling Social and Emotional Skills, Practicing Social and Emotional Skills Tags: Choices, Collaborative for Academic, Collaborative problem solving, Communication, Conflict Management, Consequences, Consequential thinking, Discipline, Feelings vocabulary, Goal setting, Positive goal, Problem solving, Roger Weissberg, Self control, Social and Emotional Learning, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL), Traffic Light Model, traffic light
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. – Pablo Picasso “I am not doing my homework. No way!” said E. If you have school-age children, certainly a similar refrain has been asserted in your household – possibly on numerous occasions and maybe even …
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Category: Building a Positive Family Environment Tags: Choices, Collaboration, Confidence, Developmental challenges, Homework, Homework routine, Learning attitude, Mistakes and learning, Parent-teacher conferences, Risk, Set expectations, Supporting learning
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is an attribute of the strong. – Mahatma Gandhi “Sammy took my Star Wars Lego out of my hand today at indoor recess. But I forgave him. He loves them too.” relayed my six year old son last week. “How do you know about forgiveness?” I asked surprised. “Because …
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I heard the news today, oh boy… – “A Day in the Life,” The Beatles When national or local news reports a situation in which a person has made a harmful choice effecting children’s lives, I begin to go down the black hole of worry. The dangers that my son faces as he goes about …
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Category: Modeling Social and Emotional Skills, Practicing Social and Emotional Skills Tags: Bullying, Caring, Cause and effect, Choices, Family problem solving, Identity, Logical consequences, Open-ended questions, Responsibility, Responsible decision-making, Upstander, Worthiness
Your children are not your children They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself… You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, 1923 Parenting in the year 2013 is a great balancing act. We know that the fear …
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Category: Building a Positive Family Environment, Practicing Social and Emotional Skills Tags: Alfie Kohn, Choices, Confidence, Edward Ryan, Family, Helicopter parent, Lev Vygotsky, Motivation, Parent, Responsible decision-making
