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Tag: Self management skills
Big Worries, Small Experiments
How Can Parents Support their Children through the Anxiety that Comes with the New School Year and Build Strength, Resilience, and Confidence? As soon as Tina spied her daughter’s face walking toward the car after school, she knew something was wrong. Tina got out and said, “Are you okay?” but daughter Alyssa quickly shut her …
Summer Scrapes, Cuts, and Bruises: How to Offer First Aid with Emotional Intelligence
“Are you okay?” I asked as E made a beeline from the outdoors in straight to the upstairs bathroom and shut the door. “No,” he uttered angrily coming out and showing me bloody elbows and knees and scraps up and down the side of his body. It was his first day out of school. And …
Promoting Focused Attention; Teaching your Child the Essential Brain Break
“Uuuwwaaaahhhh” I heard from our dining room table and recognized immediately the telltale sign of my son getting frustrated with his homework. “He hasn’t been working that long,” was my first thought. My second was, “this is gonna be a long night.” Children of all ages will experience frustration during homework time. And because we …
When Parenting for Confidence, Independence, and Resilience, Build Self-Management Skills
Parents hope to raise confident, independent, and resilient kids. They can work toward that hope each day by building the skill of self-management. What Is It? The skill of self-management (a.k.a. self-control, impulse control, or emotional regulation) is the ability to control impulses and express emotion in socially appropriate ways that do no harm to …
Readers’ Responses to “How do you teach your children self-control?”
Lots of pretend play! If they pretend to be someone with self-control (like a mom in a long line at the grocery store)….they are practicing having self-control! – Shannon B. Wanless, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Program of Applied Developmental Psychology, Department of Psychology in Education, School of Education, University of Pittsburgh I make my kids save and …
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