COVID-19 has challenged us to not live in fear. How do we retain or regain our sense of agency? Check out these ideas!
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KEEPING YOUR RESPONSES TO STRESS, UPSET AND UNCERTAINTY HEALTHY “It was all your fault,” I hear either as a real statement or the sub-text of an accusation from family members and with my whole body, I want to run. “I’ve gotta get outta here!” I think with a sense of pressing urgency. My survival personality …
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Positive – good or useful – hopeful or optimistic 1 About Balanced Positive Thinking: It seems there is much debate about whether positive thinking actually leads to or deters from happiness and success. So positive thinking must be clearly defined. Advocates confirm that it can lead to positive health outcomes, skill development and goal …
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Category: About, Practicing Social and Emotional Skills Tags: "Where the Sidewalk Ends", Balanced positive thinking, Confidence, Confident Kids, Goal achievement, Goal setting, Joy, Pathways to goals, Positive self-talk, Positive Thinking, Realism, Self-management, Sense of agency, Shel Silverstein
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
