3 Ways of Choosing the Right Preschool for Your Child
Preschool can be a wonderful place for toddlers to grow their inner abilities, nurture their creativity, and develop those […]
Parenting
How To Say ‘No’ To Your Child Without Actually Saying No
This is a guest post By Suzanne. Some days it can feel like the only word you ever use is
Play and Learning
What are the benefits of playing online games for children?
If parents create reasonable guidelines with their children and create positive agreements around playing online games then struggles like kids staying up late playing on their computers; disinterest in school activities or work and problems with children isolating themselves do not need to become an issue.
There are a multitude of fun and age appropriate games online that can provide opportunities for children to exercise their creativity, set goals, practice persistence, develop responsibility, and even learn new information. Games like taking care of a virtual pet like horse games or building cities, puzzles and more can be quite fun.
Nurturing Peacefulness #2
Peacefulness helps us to learn to cope with stress and bring what is out of balance into harmony. We begin to create an atmosphere where peace is felt and experienced in our presence. And we become open to listen to our own feelings and actions and model to our children what matters to us. We naturally become more forgiving and gentle with ourselves and others and our energy is restored and centred.
Sticker Charts: Do All Kids Want One?
why do so many people in charge of caring for and motivating children continue to use reward charts? Some things are inherently motivating to children, like loving attention, food, approval, affectionate touch, smiles and eye contact. However, these are precisely the things we should avoid using as rewards and punishments with our children if we want to show them our love is unconditional.
Family Communication, Parenting
What’s Under the Angst?
It takes a lot more finesse and attention to help create safety in the exploration than it does to simply shut it down. Making mistakes with livable consequences are great ways to learn. The bummer about shutting down all crazy explorations is that kids will lose their own internal sense of how to create safety within the adventure
Nurturing Peacefulness
Peacefulness helps us to learn to cope with stress and bring what is out of balance into harmony. We begin to create an atmosphere where peace is felt and experienced in our presence. And we become open to listen to our own feelings and actions and model to our children what matters to us.
10 Party Games that Foster Cooperation
Children truly enjoy working together and cooperation and birthday parties and celebrations are a great place to practice these skills.
These ten activities focus on working together, problem solving, and cooperation, and they are so much fun that no one will miss the competition.
Connecting With Kids While Keeping Fit: 6 Tips for Cycling as a Family
Now, at the ages of 4 and 6, our two intrepid cyclists are faster than mum and dad, do an 8-10 mile run no problem and positively look forward to bike trips. So what have we, as parents, learned about making our family bike rides successful? Here are our top 6 tips.
Parenting, Positive Discipline
What Makes a Consequence Logical?
As a general rule of thumb, if you have to think too hard about what to do to a child so that he learns a lesson, the logical consequence is most likely a punishment in disguise. To ensure that logical consequences don’t become punitive, first try to figure out what the natural consequence is. We can do this by taking ourselves out of the situation. “What would happen if I stepped out of this and let my child handle this problem?”