Focus in Class is Key: Tools To Help Your Child
Supporting neurodiverse children and those with learning disabilities is critical to improve their skills for focusing in class.
Back To School Anxiety: Get Ready Early!
For many children, anxiety levels have skyrocketed at the thought of having to reintroduce themselves back into school. It is important to get anxious kiddos ready for the transition back to school sooner than later.
Punishment Doesn’t Teach
Punishment. A tricky subject. I find that, more and more, parents have a hard time wrapping their heads around punishment. Or rather, not punishing their child. I often get a lot of push-back from parents about how their child has to be taught a lesson. That their child will otherwise “get away with it.” At […]
Happy Parents = Happy Kids
In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too. – Robert Brault
Finding the Good
Over the holidays I wrote a post about setting the intention to create Happy Holidays for yourself. On a walk with my mom yesterday, we chatted about setting our intentions and where we focus our attention. I believe there is a “field of possibilities” that we have control over.
Neanderthal brains
I spent this past weekend at a hotel for my daughter’s ringette tournament. It was… well… chaos, to say the least. Little girls running around the hotel screaming, painting nails, painting banners, watching movies, exploding popcorn everywhere, and dunking each other in the pool; simply creating havoc everywhere they went. To add to the excitement, […]