Posted on April 14, 2020 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
Use reading at home during #COVID19! Listen in to the latest episode of our new podcast, For the Love of Reading ❤️📚 In this episode, Highlights Editor in Chief, Christine French Cully, talks with Jennifer Miller of Confident Parents, Confident Kids, and shares how books and storytelling can help kids deal with their anxiety, especially …
Category: Building a Positive Family Environment, Modeling Social and Emotional Skills, Practicing Social and Emotional Skills Tags: #COVID19, @ChristineCully, @HighlightsforChildren, kids and anxiety, kids and fears, kids and worry, read-aloud books, reading and SEL, reading to deal with anxiety, reading to deal with fears, Social and Emotional Learning
Posted on October 30, 2018 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
It’s flu shot day. I have a feeling that today will go smoothly. But two years ago, it didn’t. And I notice a sense of dread creep up on me like a zombie in a haunted mansion. A few years back, E asked about whether shots would be involved with his upcoming doctor’s appointment well …
Posted on January 25, 2018 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
”Mom, everything seems to speed up around me, get louder in my head, and I can’t take my test. I feel scared.” This is how my ten-year-old son described his anxiety during test taking time. But though I know he has felt those feelings in the past, this is the first time he’s been able …
Category: Building a Positive Family Environment Tags: Calm, Calming down, Coping strategies, dealing with stress, Deep breathing, kids and anxiety, Kids and stress, kids and test-taking strategies, Modeling, parents as models, physical symptoms of anxiety, physical symptoms of stress, Self awareness, Self-management, teachers as models, teaching kids to deal with stress, Testing anxiety, Testing stress
Posted on January 18, 2018 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
Our children are dealing with increasing pressures at younger ages – to perform academically, in sports, and in the arts. While we know they will encounter stress, we can offer them tools to deal constructively with anxiety on their own when it arises. Offering practice in mindfulness in simple ways both at school and at …
Posted on February 16, 2017 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
By Guest Writer, Child Therapist and Author of Anxiety Sucks! A Teen’s Survival Guide, Natasha Daniels I have a confession to make. I sliced my daughter’s grapes way past toddlerhood. I hovered over my fearless child, as she climbed the monkey bars. I never allowed popcorn or peanuts to touch my young child’s lips. She …
Posted on February 2, 2017 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
By Guest Writer, Janine Halloran of Coping Skills for Kids When you think of the word childhood, what comes to mind? Perhaps you think of carefree times, playing games and giggles, stomping in puddles, scribbling crayons, or running on a playground. But things aren’t always sunny and perfect in childhood. There are times when challenging …
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