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… Read More
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… Read More
“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… Read More
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
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Posted on February 23, 2016 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
Parenting Skills Add to Physical Health and Longevity
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… Read More
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