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Introduction to Confident Parents, Confident Kids Video
Check out this brand new (45 second) video introduction to Confident Parents, Confident Kids! I hope you will share it and help introduce others to this dialogue for parents on promoting kids’ social and emotional development. Together we can become confident parents raising confident kids!
Posted on February 3, 2015 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
Elements of a Confident Kid…Alliance Building
: a union between people, groups or countries: a relationship in which people agree to work together.1 There will be numerous opportunities throughout a child’s academic years to practice engaging in an alliance. Individuals need not agree on interests or even like each other to form one. Alliances are often temporary and formed with a …
Posted on October 6, 2014 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
NBC Universal’s Education Nation “Parent Toolkit” Features Blog Article by CPCK’s Author, Jennifer Miller
NBC Universal’s Education Nation “Parent Toolkit” published an article today by Jennifer Miller on their blog entitled “A Better Version of Yourself.” It highlights what you can do as a parent to deal with anger and anxiety in the heat of the moment with your children. From “A Better Version of Yourself“: As parents, we …
Posted on October 2, 2014 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
A Storied Childhood; The Impact of Stories on Children’s Social and Emotional Development
Oh the places you’ll go! The worlds you will visit! The friends you will know! – Dr. Seuss1 “What are you guys up to?” I say to the three six-year-old friends in my living room. “We’re sharing our books!” one says with an “Isn’t it obvious?” tone. Reading is a top priority in the early …
Category: Building a Positive Family Environment Tags: Connection to others, Creativity, Cultural understanding, Empathy, Imagination, Learning pressure, Learning to read, Moral development, Perspective taking, Reading, Reading pressure, Responsible decision-making, Self awareness, Self-identity, Self-management, Social awareness, Story in social and emotional development
Posted on December 19, 2013 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
Bring the Holidays into Focus
Your focus is your reality. – Yoda, Star Wars I, The Phantom Menace As I entered the final stretch before Christmas, I paused, amidst my color coded lists of menu planning, decorating, present wrapping, gift creating, house cleaning and broken toy mending. I could feel my anxiety mounting to frenzy status and needed to quiet …
Posted on September 13, 2013 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
Mine, Yours and Ours
“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” – Buddha No child enters their preschool or even early elementary school years having perfected the art of sharing. As parents, we are eternally frustrated by the “this is …
Posted on April 11, 2013 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
Cultivating a Sense of Competence
How can the sun always be on fire? Where does the fire come from? asks E, my five year old son. I don’t know, I say. Good question. Papa Dave will know. He’s tall so he knows everything, asserts E. – Conversation at our house last week At all ages and stages, kids admire and …
Posted on March 28, 2013 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
Expanding the Circle: Teaching Children Inclusion
If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent. ― Mahatma Gandhi All children have to deal with and understand the paradox of separateness and connection, of individuality and belonging. In utero, babies have no sense of separation. They are physically connected to Mom through the very liquid …
Posted on March 21, 2013 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
Take the One Thing for Spring Challenge
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in the movement there is life, and in change there is power. – Alan Cohen How …
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