Posted on October 26, 2017 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
Perhaps you volunteer in your child’s classroom as I do and are helping plan the annual Halloween party. Maybe you are a teacher looking for ways to both entertain, celebrate, and build skills on the holiday. Or you could be planning a costume party for family and friends. Whatever your role or goal, the following …
Category: Building a Positive Family Environment Tags: Active listening, classroom cooperative games, Collaboration, Collaborative games, Creative thinking, Empathy, halloween cooperative games, halloween games, halloween party, Negotiation, Nonverbal communication, Perspective taking, Problem solving, Social awareness
Posted on January 12, 2017 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
All parties – schools, families, and community members – share the responsibility for building trust. But those who hold the official power within schools and classrooms have to set the tone and lead by example. -Arina Bokas, Building Powerful Learning Environments From Schools to Communities In both roles – as a parent and as an …
Category: Building a Positive Family Environment, Modeling Social and Emotional Skills, Practicing Social and Emotional Skills Tags: Arina Bokas, building powerful learning environments, children's development, children's learning, Collaboration, emotions and learning, Family-School Partnerships, metacognition, Rowman and LIttlefield, school-family-community partnerships, self-efficacy evaluation, Social and Emotional Skills
Posted on February 25, 2016 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
We want to learn more from you about your parenting. The following survey will only take a few minutes. It asks some simple questions about how you parent and how that might be similar or different from the way you were raised by your parents. Please help us advance our understanding about this critical area. Click here to answer a …
Category: About Tags: Collaboration, Learning from you, New parent resources, Parent survey, Parenting
Posted on October 22, 2015 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
Today is the official opening of Confident Parents Academy! Now readers can become members and enjoy deeper learning resources through webinars, weekly tools and tips, support for putting practices into place at home and direct coaching on your family’s challenges. Parents are so often told what not to do, but seldom offered simple, research-based strategies …
Category: About, Building a Positive Family Environment, Modeling Social and Emotional Skills, Practicing Social and Emotional Skills Tags: Collaboration, Confident Parents Academy, Deeper learning resources, Empathy, Power of Parenting with Social and Emotional Learning, Problem solving, Responsible decision-making, Video on parenting, Webinars
Posted on April 27, 2015 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
Check out “A Win for Everyone: Collaborative Games” by Jennifer Miller, author of Confident Parents, Confident Kids on the NBC Education Nation’s Parent Toolkit blog. The article includes numerous cooperative game ideas for you to introduce to your kids whether its in the backyard, at the park, at a school event or indoors on a …
Category: Practicing Social and Emotional Skills Tags: Collaboration, Collaborative games, Competition, Cooperative games, Effective listening, Empathy, Impulse control, Jennifer Miller, NBC Education Nation, NBC Parent Toolkit, Nonverbal communication, Problem solving, Self awareness, Trust building, Turn taking
Posted on April 2, 2015 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
We must widen… “our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” – Albert Einstein “Feed the birds, Mom. Don’t forget today,” E tells me with fervor on one of the last freezing cold days of Winter while the birds chirped longingly for Spring. He heard them …
Category: Modeling Social and Emotional Skills, Practicing Social and Emotional Skills Tags: Animals and humans, Care, Caring behavior, Circle of compassion, Collaboration, Compassion, Consequences, Empathy, Empathy development, Global inter-dependence, Kids and nature, Moral development, Moral thinking, Perspective taking, Understanding feelings
Posted on March 31, 2015 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
– exhibiting sensitivity Art – the creation of works of beauty or other special significance – the exercise of human skill – imaginative skill as applied to representations of the natural world or figments of the imagination Being artistic is a human desire, one we all possess by virtue of the fact that we want …
Posted on February 3, 2015 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
: a union between people, groups or countries: a relationship in which people agree to work together.1 There will be numerous opportunities throughout a child’s academic years to practice engaging in an alliance. Individuals need not agree on interests or even like each other to form one. Alliances are often temporary and formed with a …
Posted on November 4, 2014 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
– willing to consider different ideas or opinions.1 About open-mindedness Why would open-mindedness be a hallmark of a confident kid? We all have developed cognitive structures from our environment and our set of experiences that form the basis of our understanding. When we receive new information, we begin to build upon or adjust those structures to …
Posted on September 25, 2014 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
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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