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Posted on January 19, 2023 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
New Parenting Site by Highlights for Children
Highlights for Children has been a long time partner of Confident Parents, Confident Kids. We are delighted they are creating their own set of resources for confident parenting on their new site. Here’s their introduction! Check it out! Join us tonight on Instagram Live! Visit the Highlights for Children Instagram page to check it out …
PBS Parenting Minutes
Check out the new, short parenting videos! Confident Parents, Confident Kids is honored to partner with WNET New York, the flagship PBS Affiliate, in creating “Parenting Minutes,” videos dedicated to educating parents about simple, research-based ways to promote children’s social and emotional development. WNET has just produced and published two new video shorts along with …
Category: Building a Positive Family Environment, Modeling Social and Emotional Skills, Practicing Social and Emotional Skills Tags: #PBS, expressing emotions, Parenting with Social and Emotional Learning, PBS Parenting Minutes, sharing feelings, Social and Emotional Development, teaching children about feelings
Posted on April 4, 2019 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
Building Confident Kids Online Event — Coming Soon!
Next week, April 7-12, check out the free online conference hosted by full-time teacher and Mom Heather Davis. This 5-day online event includes interviews with experts focused on how we can authentically build confidence in kids in our everyday roles as parents or educators. If you want to learn ways to improve your role and effectiveness …
Learning is Social and Emotional.
The Aspen Institute’s National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development released some new tools and resources this week for parents, educators and all those serving youth (more shared below). They gathered a group of distinguished scientists together to examine how learning happens. Because these top scholars claim “learning is social and emotional,” I thought …
Posted on January 4, 2018 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
The Best of 2017 from Confident Parents, Confident Kids
In 2017, the Confident Parents, Confident Kids’ community continued to grow in followers and collaborators and celebrated five years. Thank you for your continued participation in this critical dialogue on how we can promote essential life skills in our children! In case you missed any, here are the most popular articles from the past year! …
Category: Building a Positive Family Environment Tags: alternatives to detention, alternatives to punishment, best of 2017, Kids and stress, kids coping, kindergarten adjustment, kindergarten transition, Parents as servant leaders, Servant leadership, Social and Emotional Development, stories and children, tired kindergartners
Posted on April 12, 2017 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
Families Making Music, Joyful Ways to Promote Children’s Social and Emotional Development
“Hello, everybody! So glad to see you. Hello, everybody. We’re so glad to see you!” sang Miss Leigh, our Music Together instructor who engaged both parents and toddlers in song, dance, and music making once a week in my son’s early years. And from that singular experience emerged life-long friendships and a next generation family …
Category: Building a Positive Family Environment Tags: building family connectedness, cooperation with routines, Creating a calm home, Dealing with emotions, Family music making, increasing social awareness, joyful family, Kids and music, Managing anxiety, Music, Music and self-control, music impact on children, Parenting with music, promoting social and emotional skills, Social and Emotional Development, teaching self-control through music
Posted on April 5, 2016 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
“Supporting Our Students, It Takes Everyone”
I am honored to be facilitating a watch party in my hometown, Columbus, Ohio of an NBC Education Nation broadcast entitled “Supporting Our Students, It Takes Everyone,” sponsored by the NBC Parent Toolkit and Pearson Education. FutureReady Columbus and Ohio State University are partnering to host our local gathering of 200 parents and community leaders. The …
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 October 16, 2014 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
New Social and Emotional Development Section on NBC’s Parent Toolkit
In support of Bullying Prevention Awareness Month, NBC News launched a Social & Emotional section on its award-winning Parent Toolkit website – a one-stop online resource available in English and Spanish – for parents navigating their children’s development in the classroom and beyond. Produced by NBC News’ Education Nation and sponsored by Pearson, the new …
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