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: 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.
Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits: The Homework Box
here are so many challenges to helping kids get their homework done. What if we could eliminate one just by making sure that they always have what they need on hand? Watch this video to learn more. Resources
Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits: Dining Out with Kids
Most of us go out to eat because we want a break from cooking or we want to try flavors or maybe just to taste something that we would not ordinarily prepare for our selves. What behaviors are we teaching our children when they are dining out? Are we placing a screen...
Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits: Listening to Audio Books in the Car
For most of us, long car rides with the kids are something that we dread just a little. Sure, we can hand them an iPad or put a movie on in the car to keep them placated, but we often feel guilty about doing that. Try this latest "Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits"...
Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits: Talking about Friendship
Making friends and learning how to act in a friendship is an incredibly important part of childhood. Most of the time, though, we only talk to kids about friends when there is a problem and we never share about our own friendships? What if we did?
Making Spelling Words Stick
Some of us have fond memories of spelling bees. Some of us don't. Spelling, no matter how we feel about it, is critical to successful writing which is why it is still a part of writing instruction in school. Even with spell check, we still need to know a lot of...
Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits: Helping to Make Sense of Math Word Problems
Many of us have a fair amount of anxiety around math which means it's even harder to help our kids with their math homework. More importantly, though, we want them to be somewhat independent when working on them. Watch this video for a simple strategy to help kids...