As we turn the corner from the height of the pandemic and into summer, many parents are struggling with concerns about their child’s emotional state. Carrying a 500 pound backpack, seeing people they had forgotten, realizing new relationships have formed during hybrid or shut down schooling or even just trying to use social skills they […]
The Importance of Character, Integrity and Happiness With the hope vaccines bring, we must now pull ourselves out from our cozy nests, pods and intimate social bubbles. We need to not only make new friends but also to repair what has been damaged during the pandemic. Most of us agree that it is more important
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Dear Mom: Adulting is Hard. If You Don’t Have This All Figured Out – It’s OK Times have changed and what we are asked to handle now is not only so many more demands than our parents had to handle, it is so much more than we had to handle just one year ago! You
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How Can I Help My Shy Child Make New Friends? My child says it is too hard to play with new kids. Aren’t we supposed to step outside our comfort zone? The first thing I suggest is to ask your child what makes this hard? Why does she avoid trying new things and joining in?
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Who is this Kid? Your child doesn’t reach out to a friend for weeks yet expects that friendship to resume right where it left off. Your child rolls their eyes when you say that 7th grade was hard for you too. Your shy child prefers to hibernate and tells you that this virtual life is better
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Facial expressions, body language, tone of voice, and the context of a situation are social signals for us to pause, read, and decipher how to act. You know your child is rarely aware of subtle social signals and does not understand or read people’s moods to recognize what is important to them. When children do
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Raising Kids With Executive Functioning Challenges Building strategies to help you calm down, thinking and wise in the moment – even when your child is reacting, melting down or seems oblivious to something urgent and necessary – is paramount. Weak executive function means your child may be immature and might struggle with social and academic
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You may not feel you needed to be told that arguing with adults is a social faux pas but if your child does not understand the dynamic, then coaching him to understand how his behavior impacts others, and how other people feel when he argues can help him learn important social skills for a lifetime.
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He can’t seem to make friends, or the friends he does make, you don’t like. More than likely, you already know that banning anything rarely works. When you push, they pull. This goes for your teen’s friendships too. What is the answer? Collaboration. What To Do When Your Teen Can’t Make Friends or the Friends
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Many of us struggle when our child does not take “good advice” or barely turns to look at us when we speak. You know that part of the problem getting out the door or completing chores and other tasks is that your child does not listen. But when you suggest this is something she needs
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