Posted on January 5, 2021 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point …
Category: Building a Positive Family Environment Tags: New year, Patience
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 April 7, 2016 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
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 school work or Legos that he can only …
Category: Building a Positive Family Environment, Modeling Social and Emotional Skills, Practicing Social and Emotional Skills Tags: Caring conversation tools, Communication skills, Compassion, Connection, Empathy, Friendship, Kids and compassion, Kindness, Listening skills, Parents and compassion, Patience, Raising a compassionate child, Understanding
Posted on March 17, 2016 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
It just started happening seemingly out of the blue. “Why can’t I watch PG-13 rated movies? I know kids in my class who do.” “Why do I always have to go upstairs for bed at 7:00? The neighbors all get to stay up later.” And then what seems like minutes later, I hear “Why do …
Category: Building a Positive Family Environment, Modeling Social and Emotional Skills, Practicing Social and Emotional Skills Tags: Asking questions of parents, Caring, Child development, Compassion, complex thinking, equality, ethics, Fairness, justice, kids questioning, Moral development, Patience, questioning authority, questioning parents, Reflection, Responsible decision-making, Rules, Self control, Social rules, stages of moral development
Posted on January 14, 2016 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
“Where are your gloves? Uuuuhhhrrrr!” I growled this morning. Hats, gloves, boots, shoes and socks have been strewn everywhere through our tiny hallway and into our kitchen from our side door – so much so that I can’t walk without stepping on some article of clothing. I thought we were doing okay in the mornings. …
Category: Building a Positive Family Environment, Modeling Social and Emotional Skills, Practicing Social and Emotional Skills Tags: Adjusting to winter weather, Calm, checklists, Highly responsible child, Kids and Self-control, Morning anxiety, Morning routine, Morning stress, Parents and Self-control, Patience, Positive Family Environment, Self control, The Checklist Manifesto
Posted on October 29, 2015 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
Courage is mastery of fear not the absence of it. – Mark Twain 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. E asked about whether shots …
Category: Modeling Social and Emotional Skills, Practicing Social and Emotional Skills Tags: child anxiety, Child fears, Coping, Courageous kids, Empathy, Halloween, Halloween kids scared, Kids anxiety, Kids' fears, parent patience, Parents fear, Parents pushing, Patience, Resilience, Responsive parents
Posted on April 9, 2015 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
I grew up with six brothers. That’s how I learned to dance – waiting for the bathroom. – Bob Hope “Are we there yet?” This is the common refrain from the backseat on the long road trip to Grammy’s house. We “moo” at the cows. We examine the red barns. We talk about the funny …
Posted on March 12, 2015 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
Teachers arise from somewhere within me that is beyond me, the way the dark soil that is not the root holds the root and feeds the flower. – Mark Nepo “How old do I have to be to be a grown up?” E has asked a twice over the past few weeks. Sometimes to small people …
Category: About, Building a Positive Family Environment Tags: "Being Twelve", "Yardsticks", Child development, Children, Development, Developmental milestones, Developmental traits, Eight year olds, Empathy, Great Schools Milestones, Growth, Milestones, NBC Education Nation Parent Toolkit, Patience, Perspective taking, Problem solving, Regression, Seven year olds, Twelve year olds
Posted on August 21, 2014 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
We are called to be strong companions and clear mirrors to one another, to seek those who reflect with compassion and a keen eye how we are doing, whether we seem centered or off course…we need the nourishing company of others to create the circle needed for growth, freedom and healing. – Wayne Muller After …
Category: Building a Positive Family Environment, Modeling Social and Emotional Skills Tags: Child development, Common Core Standards, Developmental milestones, Developmental traits, Empathy, Motivation to learn, Patience, Perspective taking skills, Sensitivity, Seven year olds, Six year olds, Social and Emotional Learning, Social and Emotional Learning standards
Posted on May 14, 2014 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
I grew up with six brothers. That’s how I learned to dance – waiting for the bathroom. – Bob Hope “Are we there yet?” This is the common refrain from the backseat on the long road trip to Grammy’s house. We “moo” at the cows. We examine the red barns. We talk about the funny …
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