Starting Monday, May 28th… I hope you’ll join me for this upcoming FREE online event! I’ll be speaking with Helen Maffini, co-author of Developing Children’s Emotional Intelligence on Monday, May 28th about Dealing with Anger — for Yourself and Your Child! Other speakers include Daniel Goleman, bestselling author of the transformational book, Emotional Intelligence and …
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How do we, as parents, help our kids experience and develop compassion? It’s a concern of mine as I look around me and notice my family’s eyes glued to screens and those activities encroaching on my child’s attention. And when he looks up, is he so busy with summer camp, friends or other extracurriculars that …
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Category: Modeling Social and Emotional Skills, Practicing Social and Emotional Skills Tags: caring conversation, children's books on compassion, Compassion, Daniel Goleman, Empathy, Kindness, Listening skills, Raising a compassionate child, teaching kids compassion, Teaching kids empathy
Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry. – Lyman Abbott As the temperature gauge slightly rises outdoors allowing us to shed our winter layers, our emotional temperature gauge shoots even higher in anticipation of the much-craved heat to come. From elation to frustration, we are working and …
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Category: Building a Positive Family Environment, Modeling Social and Emotional Skills Tags: Amygdala, Anger, Anger management, Anxiety, Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence, Emotional management, Emotional safety, Emotional safety plan, Intense emotions, Mental health intervention, Mental health resources, Mental Health support, Plan for Intense Emotions, Primal brain, Problem solving, Sustained crisis
– a main purpose or interest1 About Focus: I just could not devote my undivided attention to working on this blog post today while my son was home from school – a snow day. Though I had a few quiet moments while I watched him play outside with a friend, I knew that the minute …
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Category: About, Modeling Social and Emotional Skills, Practicing Social and Emotional Skills Tags: Connection, Coping strategies, Daniel Goleman, Elements of a Confident Kid, Emotional regulation, Focus, Listening, Practice, Self control, trust, Undivided attention
Your focus is your reality. – Yoda, Star Wars I, The Phantom Menace As I entered the final stretch before Christmas, I paused, amidst my color coded lists of menu planning, decorating, present wrapping, gift creating, house cleaning and broken toy mending. I could feel my anxiety mounting to frenzy status and needed to quiet …
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Category: Building a Positive Family Environment Tags: Anxiety, Attention, Christmas, Christmas and holiday season, Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence, Focus, Focus; The Hidden Driver of Excellence, Focused attention, Holidays, Presence, Self-management, Social awareness, Stress management
We are the hero of our own story. – Mary McCarthy In the hero’s journey, an ordinary person is called through extraordinary circumstances to sacrifice a part of him or herself in order to serve the greater good. In doing so, the reward or victory is self knowledge and a demonstration of character that the …
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