The pace of activities and anticipation of summer can add to a sense of frenzy in these final school days. Children are excited about vacations and swimming. Parents are ready to shed the early morning commute to school and the pressures of homework duty. It’s tempting to race blindly forward into the sunshine without …
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Category: Building a Positive Family Environment Tags: capability, Competence, ending the school year, kids and summertime, Learning, metacognition, parents celebrating end of school year, parents supporting change, parents supporting transition, persistence, school year reflection, support for transition, transition from school to summer
If you are concerned about your children making a living in the world on their own someday, you are not alone. And because financial acumen is not typically a rigorous part of school curricula, we know, as parents, it’s up to us to help our children. It’s likely you’ve considered teaching your child about money …
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Category: Building a Positive Family Environment, Modeling Social and Emotional Skills, Practicing Social and Emotional Skills Tags: caring Socratic method with kids, Empathy, Empathy and money, Ethics and money, Fairness, Family gratitude, Goal setting, Money and values, persistence, Reciprosity, Self control, Teaching kids about money and ethics and empathy, Teaching kids empathy, Teaching kids ethics, Values and priorities
At some point, every child will experience the feeling of being different. From hobby interests to gender identity, some children will have a more intense experience of not being like the rest. And all children encounter others who are different. How will they view those contrasts? Will they be able to see the unique richness …
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Category: Building a Positive Family Environment, Modeling Social and Emotional Skills Tags: "Made by Raffi", Amanda McBroom, Appreciating diversity, Children, children’s book author, Contribution, Courage, Craig Pomranz, Dealing with differences, Empathy, Feeling different, Gender differences, Kindness, persistence, Raffi, Role models, The Hunger Games, The Rose
– willing to consider different ideas or opinions.1 About open-mindedness Why would open-mindedness be a hallmark of a confident kid? We all have developed cognitive structures from our environment and our set of experiences that form the basis of our understanding. When we receive new information, we begin to build upon or adjust those structures to …
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Category: About Tags: Acceptance, Appreciating differences, Caring, Carol Dweck, Cognitive flexibility, Collaboration, Cross-age kindness, Executive function, Fixed mindset, Growth mindset, Learning, Open-minded, Open-mindedness, persistence, Perspective taking, Problem solving
Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure. – Amos Bronson Alcott “The driveway is too bumpy.” “I hate wearing bike helmets!” and “I don’t want to ride with training wheels” are all of the “reasons” my son vehemently cites for not learning to ride a bike when his friends …
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Category: Practicing Social and Emotional Skills Tags: "I can" belief, Autonomy, Carol Dweck, Competence, Consequences, Failure, Fixed mindset, Frustration tantrum, Gratefulness, Growth mindset, Learning, persistence, Self-agency, Sense of agency
/be – lef/ : a state or habit of mind in which trust or confidence is placed in some person or thing. : a feeling of being sure that someone or something exists or that something is true.1 About a belief in self: Confident kids believe in their ability to learn and achieve whatever goal they …
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Category: About, Building a Positive Family Environment Tags: Belief in self, Beliefs about ability to learn, Confidence, Effort, Learning, Motivation, persistence, Reluctant learner, Risk-taking, Self-concept, Self-efficacy, trust, Visualization
It may be that the most important mastery we achieve early on is not the mastery of a particular skill or particular piece of knowledge, but rather the mastery of the patience and persistence that learning requires, along with the ability to expect and accept mistakes and the feelings of disappointment they may bring. – …
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Category: Building a Positive Family Environment Tags: Education, fear of failure, forgiveness, Fred Rogers, frustration tantrums, High school, Learning, persistence, reparation, Self awareness, Skill, tantrums, Teacher, trust
