The Best Policy for Helping Siblings Share
When your kiddos fight over the tire swing, what they really want is something much deeper. What your kids are longing for is a close relationship with one another where they get along really well.
When your kiddos fight over the tire swing, what they really want is something much deeper. What your kids are longing for is a close relationship with one another where they get along really well.
You’re about to learn a tool you can use immediately when handling your child’s anxious behaviors. It won’t take you long, and is so effective it can work the very first time. This exact tool
Are you ready to learn the real reason your child gets anxious about leaving you? Want to know the magic words you an say to help your child? Are you ready for shorter goodbyes and
Is separation anxiety keeping your child from enjoying preschool? Now you can build your child’s confidence and say good-bye to separation anxiety.
I let her know that I would be leaving soon, and then she frantically reached her arms out — a gesture for me to hold her. I took her in my arms, and said, softly, “Honey, I am going to have to go.”
Early one morning, my daughter began to be aggressive in her play with her younger brother. She was insisting that he play with her, and on her terms. He was doing his best to tell her no, but it wasn’t getting through. The situation was escalating, and quick.
By Ravid Aisenman Abrahmsohn I was reminded recently just how much children tell us when we listen – through good times and bad. One family in my Skill Building group has a five- year-old son
Maybe it’s not-so-easy to have that first sleepover. But so easy to have some kind of parental amnesia! Ugh. I was immediately wondering if we were going to need to turn right back around and pick up the kids and then turn around again to go home.
a guest post from Stephanie Parker When my daughter was three she started pinching and biting me. I was pretty shocked as she’d never done anything like that before. I tried setting a limit and
I had to keep a very close watch on my son, and be able to move in fast to protect myself or my daughter when he decided to have a swipe! But as the time went on, these incidents were fewer, and he was laughing more, and including his sister more in the games we were playing. I could sense we were all feeling very close.
I have thought a lot about what words I say to my two children when they are pushing boundaries and I need to set a limit. I have found the phrase, “I can’t let you
In this free parenting call Certified Parenting by Connection instructors Lyra L’Estrange and Otilia Mantelers bring you practical solutions to build your child’s confidence and independence.
Shaheen used this approach to help her daughter work through fears around separation and swimming lessons, and return to her cheerful self.
Children with high anxiety spend much of their time “on guard,” on the lookout for potential dangers. You can use dramatic play to help loosen up this hypervigilance. Here’s three games you can play to
My entire day, I’d had to figure things out on the fly. By the time my 10-year-old son was getting out of school, my schedule had changed half a dozen times. I had arranged for