helpful /help-fel/ making it easier to do a job, deal with a problem willing to help other people1 About Being Helpful and Being Helped: The ability to help others requires self-awareness and social awareness. The helper must identify ways in which he can contribute to solving other’s problems or promoting another’s well-being. He must also have …
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Category: About Tags: Being Helped, Being Helpful, Compassion, Competence, Connection, Empathy, Modeling, Self awareness, Sensitivity, Service, Social awareness, Social justice, Social rules
There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom. If one could but recall his vision by some sort of sign. It was in this hope that the …
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Every spring is the only spring – a perpetual astonishment. – Ellis Peters The birds chirp outside of my window building nests and resting on the newly budded branches surrounding my office. As spring reveals new growth, we watch our children grow and develop, their transformations at times readily apparent and rapid. At a family …
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Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it. – Tori Amos When a parent gets sick, life goes on. Kids have to get up and get ready for school. Lunches must be packed. Homework has to get accomplished. It can be a real struggle …
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Category: Building a Positive Family Environment Tags: Anxiety, Depression, Emotional boundaries, Empathy, forgiveness, Healing, Mental health, Parenting and sickness, Recovery, Security, Self awareness, Self-compassion, Transitions
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson As I work with E to diligently write the names of each of his class members on Valentine cards to celebrate the holiday this Friday, it raises a larger question. How am I …
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Anger is just anger. It isn’t good. It isn’t bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It’s like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice. – Jim Butcher, White Night Yesterday, the teachers at E’s school decided to have …
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Category: Modeling Social and Emotional Skills, Practicing Social and Emotional Skills Tags: Assertive skills, Communication, Complex emotions, Emotional vocabulary, Hot chocolate breathing, Logical consequences, Managing anger, Model calming down, Power struggles, Relationship skills, Revenge behaviors, Self awareness, Teach ways to deal with anger
Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others. – Brene Brown Boundary lines define the playing field. They outline the perimeter and if you step outside, you are, at least temporarily, out of the game. Emotional boundaries operate in the same way. They are the …
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Category: Practicing Social and Emotional Skills Tags: Child development, Emotional boundaries, Emotional Intelligence, Empathy, Problem solving, Responsible decision-making, Rules, safety, Self awareness, Self-regulation, Social awareness
We do not learn from experience…we learn from reflecting on experience. – John Dewey January is always a time in which my family and I reflect on the past year and dream about our hopes for the future. We try and step back and look at the big picture before diving into our specific plans …
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Category: Building a Positive Family Environment Tags: Family, Learning, Meaning, New year, Open-ended questions, Parent, Parenting goals, Purpose, Reflection, Self awareness, Values
Pick a little, talk a little, pick a little, talk a little Cheep, cheep, cheep, talk a lot, pick a little more. – From the musical, Music Man (1957) It is easy to forget that the music of our speech, our tone of voice, communicates just as much as the actual content of what is …
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Category: Building a Positive Family Environment, Modeling Social and Emotional Skills Tags: Calm environment, Children, Dealing with misbehaviors, Emotion, Family, Home, John Gottman, Nonverbal communication, Paraphrasing, Parent, Reinforcing positive behaviors, Self awareness, Tone of voice
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
