Raise Children with Big Hearts and Strong Minds
When your child is born the nerve connection between their heart and their mind isn’t fully formed. As your child begins to experience emotions and stress, those nerves strengthen. As parents, we are part of that experience. Our task as parents is to nurture that inner world — their emotional intelligence, self-regulation, compassion, and growth mindset,Ā their hearts and minds. Give your children strong roots so that they will thrive.
Parenting Grounded in Science and Love
As a child psychologist and mother, I have found that nothing replaces your best instincts as a parent and yet, sometimes our instincts fail us — because parenting is hard.Ā That’s when we can turn to research-backed strategies as the tools to have in our back pocket for the moments when we need something a little more to guide our kids or help them develop life-skills so they will thrive.
3-Step Quick Guide to Positive Discipline: Are you Reacting or Responding to Your Child?
Inside: This quick-guide to positive discipline gives you all you need to get started using emotional-connection to guide your child to better behavior today! I fed the puppy. She had…
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10 Emotion-Coaching Phrases to Use When Your Child is Upset
Inside: 10 Phrases to use when your child is upset to coach them through their big and difficult emotions. Teach your child how to cope with emotions and not to…
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Five Steps to Calm and Centered Even When Your Child is Out of Control
Inside: Five-Steps to master your own emotions and know your triggers so you can remain calm even when your child is most definitely not calm. Let’s face it — when…
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Put Your Own Oxygen Mask On First
Learn how to mindfully PAUSE so you can respond instead of reacting to your child.
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Nurture Your Child's Inner World
Help your child develop self-regulation, emotion-regulation, kindness, compassion and more.
The Most Important Life Skill to Teach Children: Self-Regulation
Inside: 7 science-backed ways to teach your child the all-important life skill of self-regulation. Free printable! There is one life skill that is the most important one to teach our children. To…
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Teach Your Child The Power of Self-Reflection
What to Do When You are Mad is a workbook to help kids learn how to:
Understand Anger
Identify Signs of Anger
Learn to Vent Anger in Healthy Ways
Refocus Their āMad Energyā to Problem-Solve
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