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Learn to Love Podcast – Raising Confident Kids
Learn to Love Podcast – How do you raise confident kids and feel confident as a parent in an anxious world?
Posted on January 21, 2020 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
This Week! FREE Online Happily Family Conference…
Mark your calendars — and join me this week — January 23-27th! This is a major highlight of my wintertime enrichment opportunities. I love joining expert parenting hosts and friends Cecilia and Jason Hilkey for this rich, insight-filled online conference. Register here and you’ll receive links each day to five or so interviews (between 30-45 …
PBS Parenting Minutes
Check out the new, short parenting videos! Confident Parents, Confident Kids is honored to partner with WNET New York, the flagship PBS Affiliate, in creating “Parenting Minutes,” videos dedicated to educating parents about simple, research-based ways to promote children’s social and emotional development. WNET has just produced and published two new video shorts along with …
Category: Building a Positive Family Environment, Modeling Social and Emotional Skills, Practicing Social and Emotional Skills Tags: #PBS, expressing emotions, Parenting with Social and Emotional Learning, PBS Parenting Minutes, sharing feelings, Social and Emotional Development, teaching children about feelings
Posted on August 8, 2019 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
Educators: Want to Connect Parents to Your School’s Focus on Social and Emotional Learning?
Host a Parent Book Club in School Year 2019-2020! Families can learn about their child’s social and emotional development and ways they can promote social and emotional skills alongside educators. The book contains a discussion guide to support readers in their dialogue. “Confident Parents, Confident Kids: Raising Emotional Intelligence in Ourselves and Our Kids—from Toddlers to …
Category: Building a Positive Family Environment Tags: Confident Kids, Confident Parents, educators-families learning together, parent book club, Parenting with Social and Emotional Learning, parents learning about SEL, parents learning about social and emotional learning, School-family partnerships
Posted on July 11, 2019 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
Upcoming Institute and Interview with Jennifer Miller
Research partners and parents Shannon Wanless and Jennifer Miller will be facilitating a full day institute pre-conference session on October 2nd, 2019 focused on parenting with social and emotional learning in Chicago at the 2019 SEL Exchange Conference hosted by the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL). We’ll be sharing our research and …
Posted on January 29, 2019 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
Join Us This Week… Preschool Mindfulness Summit
Join Shannon Wanless, child development expert, and Jennifer Miller of Confident Parents, Confident Kids for a discussion with Helen Maffini of the Preschool Mindfulness Summit about how parents and educators of young children can use mindfulness and social and emotional skill building in their everyday practices. Our interview will be made available this Thursday, January …
Posted on January 24, 2019 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
Parenting Montana
Governor Steve Bullock of Montana just announced the launch of a website entitled ParentingMontana.org that is designed to provide parents with simple to use, evidence-based tools for developing children’s social and emotional skills from preschool through high school. This unique site was developed in response to a major statewide survey asking 1,200 Montana parents exactly …
Posted on December 6, 2018 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
Featured In Youth Connections Magazine… “A Parent’s Greatest Gift: Self-Management”
Check out the following feature article in “Youth Connections” magazine by Confident Parents, Confident Kids’ author, Jennifer Miller. This was written in partnership with Montana State University’s Center for Health and Safety Culture, one part of a multi-media campaign launching this January 2019 entitled Parenting Montana focused on parenting with social and emotional learning. Here’s how it …
Posted on August 30, 2018 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
Featured In “Youth Connections” Magazine… Guiding Children with Tools for Success —
Parenting with Social and Emotional Learning This article was written as part of a larger statewide awareness and educational campaign in Montana focused on parenting with social and emotional learning entitled “Parenting Montana” through the leadership of Montana State University’s Center for Health and Safety Culture. It begins… “What was that noise?” I asked my …
Category: Building a Positive Family Environment Tags: "Youth Connections" Magazine, Montana State University Center for Health and Safety Culture, Parenting with Social and Emotional Learning, Responsible decision-making, social and emotional learning at ages and stages, Social and Emotional Learning in Schools
Posted on June 8, 2017 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
Summer Reading Inspiration for Kids and Parents
My Nightstand This summer, I am diving into learning more about the emotional life of boys through Raising Cain; Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys. I am eager to read Insight about ways to see ourselves more clearly and raise our own self-awareness. We’ll be advancing our sex education agenda in our household as our …
Category: Building a Positive Family Environment Tags: children's books with social and emotional themes, juvenile fiction, kids' nonfiction, Parenting books, Parenting with Social and Emotional Learning, summer book recommendations, summer reading for kids, summer reading for parents, young adult books
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