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.
Grow Kids With Big Hearts
The Mindful Emotions Toolkitā¢ will help you create a dream calm-down space in your home and in your heart.
When you create a space or a basket with these printables and not only are you creating a physical space for your child to mindfully manage their emotions, but you are creating an emotional space as well.
The best gift you can give to another human is to stay with them in their emotion.Ā ToĀ holdĀ that emotion with them.Ā For younger children emotions are abstract. Concrete tools like the ones in this printable help childrenĀ understand emotions, work through their emotions, and also recenter.
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Help Kids De-stress
Our kids are living through a time in history that will shape them. We want to help them develop life skills to manage stress, to become resilient, to overcome, to be kind in a sometimes cruel world. 
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust our sails. -Bertha CallowayĀ
Here are some resources to help build up your child’s inner strengths: emotion-regulation, mindfulness, self-energy.
52 Sensory Play-Based Brain Breaks for Kids: Reset and Re-Center
Inside: Sensory brain breaks to help kids de-stress, reset, and re-center and also help kids to solidify what they learn. Any kind of activity that immerses kids into their environment is a…
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