Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits
As parents, our goal is to help our kids develop into young adults who are self-sufficient and ready to face the challenges of the outside world. To do this, we need to think about the habits that we will give our children so that they will have the tools that they need. To create kid habits, we need the right parenting strategies.
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: Getting Kids Involved in Dinner
Planning and cooking dinner for a family can be stressful, particularly when your kids are spectators and not participants. Here are some simple ways to pull them into the process. https://youtu.be/hrbPPpHF5SY
Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits: Springing Forward
For parents, changing the clocks twice a year is a royal pain in the neck. It disrupts not only our own sleep cycles but our kids' as well. With a little preparation, though, you can make it less rocky this year. https://youtu.be/n-CF0ibGCSk
Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits: Build Confidence by Accepting Mistakes
It can be hard to accept the mistakes that our children make. But in accepting mistakes, we can teach our kids how to use failure to thrive and develop perseverance. https://youtu.be/lPXhWnAIktM More Parenting Strategies Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits: Promoting...
Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits: Coaching Your Child to Better Problem Solving
Problem-solving isn't a skill that just magically appears in our kids. It needs to be nurtured and encouraged. Otherwise, our kids will rely on us to be the solution to all of their problems. Here's one way to coach your child to better problem-solving skills....
Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits: STOP Practice
Sometimes, there is so much going on that we need to stop just to get our heads screwed back on correctly. Using this STOP strategy can help you and your kids do just that. https://youtu.be/sVkNyRPRGms More Parenting Strategies Mindfulness and Parenting: What’s the...
Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits: Putting Silence to Work
One of the hardest lessons that I had to learn as a therapist was to embrace silence when a patient wasn't speaking. I had a compulsion to fill the space which meant that I was distracting the patient from whatever they were about to tell me. As a parent, I've learned...
Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits: Figure 8 Breathing
Sometimes a simple strategy to can help you be more mindful and reduce your anxiety. Try out this figure 8 breathing technique to help your kids (and you) be more mindful and combat anxiety. https://youtu.be/vj1ciEL7DBc More Resources Anxiety: What Is It and How Does...
Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits: Helping Kids Study
"Go and study!" is a very direct instruction, but it leaves out that most kids haven't really been taught how to study. Making this more complicated is that not every method of studying works for every kid. And, of course, what role should we be playing as parents?...
Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits: Promoting Speech Development in Young Children, Part 2
Language development is a hallmark of early childhood. We cherish our children's' first words as much or more than physical milestones like crawling or walking. Helping speech and language development is something that parents can play a significant role in. Here are...