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.
Promoting Better Behavior with a Marble Jar
There are lots of strategies that you can use to encourage better behavior in kids. The challenge with most systems is sticking with them and consistency. Another problem is that once you've encouraged a specific behavior, now what? Try this strategy that uses marbles...
Math All Around Us
Math seems to be an area that most parents are particularly challenged by. Changes in how math is taught coupled with our own negative experiences with math, make us reluctant to engage our kids with math in the same way that we do with reading. Yet, we can push past...
Making Gratitude a Habit
We all want our kids to be thankful for things, but it can be a struggle to get them to show some gratitude even just occasionally. The challenge is modeling it for them and setting the stage to make gratitude a habit. https://youtu.be/GtYgHQ4yfL4
The Work Hour
Creating the right environment for studying can be challenging. Thinking about the studying environment is important, though. What steps can we take to set a better atmosphere for learning? Can we get others involved in it? What would a work hour look like?...
Studying around the House
How and where our children study can have an impact on how they retain and recall information. Sometimes it's better not to just study at the kitchen table. https://youtu.be/FLMd3fpFDo4
Stopping Back Talk
Having your kid talk back to you pushes all of our buttons and we tend not to respond well. Yet, our gut reaction to their behaviors doesn't help us correct it or prevent it from happening again. Check out these strategies for minimizing back talk and dealing with it...
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