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Parenting comes with its own set of challenges, and one of the most common concerns for parents with young children is sleep. When your child is having a hard time sleeping, it can be a stressful experience for both you and your little one. In this blog, we will discuss strategies to help your child sleep better while emphasizing the importance of staying calm and loving throughout the process.
Do you find yourself worrying excessively about your child's homework and academic progress? Multiple studies suggest that homework doesn't significantly enhance academic knowledge. It's time to shift perspective. Homework can serve as an exercise to help children develop essential social emotional skills like perseverance, navigating challenging tasks, and handling emotions.
In a lot of my parenting consultations I find myself telling the parents that the best way to manage their concerns is to increase love and decrease consequences. This past month a parent ask me to be more specific about what love looks like for children. What did they have to do to choose love over consequences. I thought that maybe all of you would like the answer to this question so here are my answers:
How do I help my child be okay with making mistakes while learning? Watch to see how she would explain this to a school age child.
One of the most popular questions in our online parenting support subscription and in parent consultations is how to manage after school activities. Here are my suggestions in how to think about them and how to make choices around them:
It's August, and time to get ready for school again. For some of you it's the first time you are taking your little one to school. You are taking your child to kindergarten, middle school, and/or high school. School has multiple transitions, so here are quick tips to get you to that first day of school:
Its been a long year for all of us. The globe has been dealing with the ups and downs of a pandemic. Our brain has been on high alert for a year plus whether we admit it to ourselves or not. A brain on high alert causes all of us to feel overwhelmed and tired. A hyperaware brain will either react in a rigid way or a chaotic way.
Is your child negative? Always putting themselves down or giving up? Watch this 1+ minute video and learn how to help them out of negative self talk.
My husband and I were speaking about our work. He is the Dean of Students at an independent school in Miami and I am the owner and founder of Stop Parenting Alone. We both found that we had the same experience this past month. Everyone had hit a wall. The teachers of those we each work with were asking, "When will this student finally change?" The students and my client's children were making mistakes, melting down, skipping classes, and simply making all sorts of poor choices. The parents in my parenting consultations and the online subscription were wondering what is wrong with my child, why aren't they progressing.
