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: Conversation Starters with Kids That Actually Get Answers
Getting kids to talk about their days can be tricky. Just asking "How was your day" isn't going to get us the answers that we are looking for. How we position ourselves with our kids and what we ask are both critical to getting kids to share. Resources
Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits: How to Help Your Kids Find Their Inside Voices
Do your kids have a hard time telling the difference between their inside voices and their outside voices? Is their volume more appropriate for a stadium than the inside of a house? Kids don't always have the self-regulation skills that help them keep their volume at...
Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits: 4 Steps to Help Calm Your Kids Down at Night
Getting our kids to settle down for the night can be a challenge. Often, they just aren't ready to make the transition from a busy day to the calm required to fall asleep in bed. Here are 4 sick tips to help get your kids more relaxed and ready for sleep. Resources...
Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits: Getting Your Kids Out the Door in the Morning
Mornings can be rough. There is so much that has to happen and too little time to make it happen. We get stressed and our kids feed off of that stress for a vicious cycle of general unpleasantness at the start of the day. Try these two easy strategies to take some of...
Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits: Do You Have All Your Stuff?
We all ask this question of our kids at pick-up from school. "Do you have all your stuff?" Usually, the answer is yes. Or at least it is until they get home, unpack, and then somehow magically discover that their [fill in the blank] has mysteriously vanished even...
The Family “Bucket List”
"I'm bored." It's probably one of the last phrases you want to hear from your kids. Too often, our kids expect us to serve as cruise director for them and keep them entertained at all times. What if we turned the tables and got them involved in the planning of family...
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