Anxiety Resources
Anxiety: What Is It and How Does It Impact Kids?
Anxiety Tracker, Anxiety Pattern Finder, and Calming Strategies Worksheet from Understood.org
4 Steps to Help Calm Your Kids Down at Night
Anxiety Canada – clearinghouse for anxiety resources
Dealing with Children’s Fears – Part 1 and Part 2
Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits
Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits are short videos about specific parenting strategies that you can use to help your child develop the skills they need to be successful adults in the future.
Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits: Promoting Growth Mindset by Accepting Mistakes
Without a doubt, we want our kids to develop a growth mindset. We want them to be resilient and learn from their successes and mistakes. But, how do we as parents get them to develop this mindset?
Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits: Relaxing Your Kids Using a Body Scan
Our kids are surrounded by millions of stimuli all day competing for their attention. So much is happening that they often struggle with listening to their own bodies or are challenged with calming themselves down. Try out this body scan technique to help your kids...
Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits: Teaching Your Kid a Lesson
Our impulse as parents is often to lecture our kids when they don't do what they are supposed to or they misbehave. But is that the best way to help them learn the behavior that we want them to display?
Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits: Tattling vs. Telling
Tattling is a natural reflex for children when they perceive an injustice in the world or when they just want to get a little dig in at someone. They often don't understand the nuance of when it's important to let an adult know about something and when it isn't. It's...
Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits: Encouraging Reflective Thinking
Most of us at one time or another have asked a child, "What were you thinking?" The problem is that most of the time they weren't. Reflective thinking takes time to evolve in children, but there are ways that we can help our kids develop this important skill.
Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits: Talking and Listening to Young Boys
How we communicate with our children is incredibly important. For some, particularly for young boys, how we listen and engage with them can make a huge difference in how they behave. We can choose to help build them up or knock them down.
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