Have you taught your children how to respond to bullying behaviors? Their response can mean the difference between stopping the aggression or escalating it. And what if they are a witness? Will they know how to be an upstander? There are also ways we can teach our kids to resist social pressures and not become …
Category: Building a Positive Family Environment, Modeling Social and Emotional Skills, Practicing Social and Emotional Skills Tags: Aggression, Bullying, Courage, Kids and bullying, kids and meanness, Kids and power, Mean words, Parents, Parents helping kids with bullying, Upstanders
Sir Michael Marmot, who directs the Institute of Health Equity at University College London and is president of the World Medical Association, published an article in Scientific American this week reviewing research that sheds light on the importance of parents’ ability to help kids develop socially and emotionally. In fact, he cites research studies that …
“There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all.” – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis “One more chapter!” my son pleads at bedtime and more often than not, I have obliged. It’s a true joy to dive into an adventure together and have the chance to discuss subjects …
Category: Building a Positive Family Environment, Modeling Social and Emotional Skills, Practicing Social and Emotional Skills Tags: adolescent literature, Book recommendations, books and social emotional learning, juvenile fiction, kids and literature, kids reading, Kids reading together, literacy development, Parents, Picture books, reading and social emotional learning, social emotional book themes, social emotional learning
