Posted on March 6, 2025 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
Check out these powerful strategies to replace shame with curiosity and promote resilience in our children.
Category: Building a Positive Family Environment, Modeling Social and Emotional Skills, Practicing Social and Emotional Skills Tags: Anger, child accountability, Conflict, Curiosity, emotional resilience, internal family systems therapy, self-awareness, Self-management, shame, sibling conflict, Sibling rivalry, teaching kids about emotions
Posted on March 4, 2021 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
How do you help your child learn to set emotional boundaries in their friendships? Check out these ideas!
Posted on October 22, 2020 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
Transforming the Big Feelings of Now into Big Lessons for the Future Frowning faces, furrowed brows, and grumpy expressions describes our family’s morning meeting on Monday (and Tuesday, if I’m being honest) as we launched into yet another week of homeschooling. Tired of the pressures of schooling during a pandemic, we are needing to rally …
Posted on October 8, 2020 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
This week, we partner with Chandler Unified School District, the third largest school district in Arizona to discuss the stress children and teens are feeling along with sharing some strategies for parents to offer support. As this district moves from several months of remote learning to in-person learning with all of the new rules and …
Posted on September 22, 2020 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
Though my family is not entering a school building each day and attempting to assess any signs of illness in ourselves or our child each day, we are going to school — at home. And we do need to check each of our temperatures as a matter of routine for our emotional wellness. No matter …
Posted on August 20, 2020 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
Practice the “Body Check Five” to Manage Back-to-School Fears If you are a parent, educator, or a child old enough to anticipate the coming school year, there’s no doubt you are holding considerable tension. Speaking with educational leaders across the state of Ohio this past week, one message was consistent and crystal clear: we don’t …
Posted on May 28, 2020 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
In Uncertain, Stressful and Dangerous Times, How Can We Make the Best Choices for our Family? “We rented a vacation home with one other close family friend thinking that situation could be low risk. But then, they surprised us when several of their cousins showed up with them.” “The whole group of girls, friends from …
Category: Building a Positive Family Environment Tags: #COVID19, #parentingandCOVID19, #quarantine, core family principles, difficult choices, ethical decision-making, family responsible decision-making, family values, Relationship skills, self-awareness, Self-management, Social and Emotional Learning, Social awareness


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