How to Use a Feeling Chart for Adults in Positive Parenting
Unlock emotional well-being with a feeling chart for adults. Enhance awareness, communication, and resilience with mood charts and emotion charts.
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3 Effective Ways to Separate Your Identity From Your Emotions
Whatever you are facing today, I hope you know you are more than your current struggle. You are fierce and brave. You are enough. You are a warrior.
Pretending To Be Calm Is Not Helping Our Children
Many of us believe that if we can remain calm no matter what and teach our children to do the same then we have successfully mastered self-regulation. But true regulation has nothing to do with achieving a certain state. It's in noticing and responding to whatever emotion you are feeling.
Words Matter: Adjusting Popular Books and Songs to Align with Positive Parenting Strategies
Our words matter. Children receive messages from all around them and this includes the books, songs, and stories we share with them. Sometimes those messages are affirming and sometimes they are dismissive. Read how to make your words count to nourish your child's social-emotional skills.
6 Ways To Successfully Co-Parent With Your Ex
How do we co-parent with our ex when we have differing views and parenting philosophies, and how do we keep our kids from being in the middle?
Gratitude Builds The Brain For Emotional Intelligence
Whether we are thanking our spouse, our kids, Mother Nature, or receiving thanks in return, gratitude in any form can help stabilize emotions, help us parent from our center, and offer our children the safety and connection to learn and grow.
Emotional Intelligence: How To Discipline A Toddler Without Time-Outs
Tantrums happen but parents can help children handle their big emotions. Here's how to discipline a toddler with a supportive, long-term approach that nurtures emotional intelligence.
Speaking Your Child's Meltdown Language
Understand the biology of a meltdown and how to speak your child's unique meltdown language.
8 Ways To De-escalate Meltdowns With Your Child
Teens and toddlers alike can demonstrate aggressive or uncooperative behaviors from time to time as influenced by big emotions and neurological overwhelm. De-escalation tools help parents defuse a situation and help their child calm and regulate their system.
Our Kids Are Listening Even When They Don't Seem Like It
I was starting to lose hope that my three-year-old was actually absorbing anything when I talked to him about emotions or attempted to elicit empathy after he hit or kicked another in a fit of rage. But then this happened, and I realized he had been listening after all.
Why Time-Outs Increase Power Struggles
When your child misbehaves, how do you respond? Here is why Time-Outs increase power struggles and what you can do instead.
