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45 New Family Holiday Traditions
Family traditions sustain bonding and connection with loved ones. Create thoughtful traditions that are meaningful to your family, embracing the changes to come while also honoring the past.
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20 Fun Ways to Teach Kids About Gratitude
There's an upswing in conversations around "gratitude" during the holiday season. In an incredibly difficult year, this can be a challenge for some. As you make holiday plans, take this opportunity...
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5 Tips for Raising a Resilient Child With Strong Coping Skills
Resilient children can stand tall in the face of challenges and use problem-solving skills to forge ahead. They are confident, curious, and independent. Here are some ways you can foster resilienc...
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Key Strategies to Teach Children Empathy (Sorted by Age)
Empathy is a key ingredient in positive friendships and relationships. It reduces conflict and misunderstandings and leads to helping behavior, kindness, and even greater success in life in general...
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3 Ways for Children to Support Children
How do we help our children understand that by helping others, we help ourselves? We guide them to noticing the joy they receive from knowing someone is better off because of them. Here are 3 ways ...
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7 Ways to Help Kids Cope with Big Life Changes
Big life changes are inevitable, but that doesn’t make them any easier for children (or adults) to manage. As we face changes, we develop the skills of resilience. These seven strategies will help ...
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7 Tips to Give Effective Feedback to Your Child
How many times has our (well-intentioned) feedback and advice been met with a blank stare? Or worse, a negative and defensive reaction? Check out these 7 helpful tips for delivering constructive f...
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Nurturing a Growth Mindset from Birth
As a new parent, you may have heard about the importance of instilling a growth mindset in your child. If you get it right, a growth mindset can be a powerful thing. Surprisingly, you can start fro...
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5 Effective Ways to Help Your Perfectionist Child
Is your child self-critical and easily frustrated? Does he feel uncomfortable with new challenges or particularly difficult tasks? If so, your child may be a perfectionist.Here are 5 effective tip...
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5 Ways to Help Children Focus on What They Can Control
All of us want to feel in charge. And now more than ever, children need a sense of power over their worlds. So how do we help them find (and experience) it? Consider these six simple and effective...
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How To Empower Children When They Struggle
As parents, our instinct is to rush to the rescue when our children struggle. We want to say, “Don’t worry! I’ll fix it!” In the long-term, however, this “helpful” behavior only hurts our children....
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7 Reasons Why it’s Important to Let Your Kids Struggle
No one likes to struggle. Struggling is unpleasant and uncomfortable, but there is no growth without it. When we “save” children from struggle, we prevent them from reaching their full potential....
