Gratefulness Shapes Your Brain:
Tips on How to Bring the Practice of Gratitude into Your Family’s Daily Life During this time of year, it is typical to hear folks...
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Managing the Stressors of the Season
Tips on How NOT to Overschedule and Overcommit! What comes to mind when you think of the holiday season? Perhaps it’s fond memories of...
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Emotionally Charged Parenting:
How to Step Back and Bring the Calm It can be easy for emotions to escalate in a matter of seconds over the silliest things regarding...
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Practicing Self-Care That Benefits the Whole Family
Why Meeting Your Needs is Important for Everyone! With the new school year upon us, we are all entering an incredibly exciting, busy, and...
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Building Connection with Your Child:
An Introduction to the Crucial Role of Attachment and Connection Perhaps your child is missing homework, assignments turned in are...
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Summer Opportunities–I’m Bored!
How often do you hear “I’m bored!” in the summertime? While kids are excited for the school year to end, the change in pace can leave...
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Passionate Pursuits: Questions to Ask and When to Move On to Something New
A Continuation of Our Previous Post For many of us, finding something we are interested in isn't always easy, and it can be quite the...
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Building Resilience Through Passionate Pursuits:
Summer! The Season for Sampling In the past, children played sports, learned instruments, and participated in activities to learn a...
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The Inchworm vs. The Grasshopper: Honoring Both Cognitive Profiles
In simple terms, a cognitive profile is how a person approaches or thinks through a problem. The authors of Dyslexics and Dyscalculics...
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Be Active, Not Passive: Study Strategies That Promote Real Learning
Have you ever listened to a presentation, read through a textbook, or feverishly crammed information to pass a quiz or test? If so,...
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Stop Telling, Start Asking!
Most of us can recall our feelings when we are told to do something or given a command that requires nothing back from us except our...
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Essential Skills Children Need in the 21st Century
Foundational skills of the 21st century encompass soft skills: adaptability, flexibility, collaboration, and curiosity. That's not to say...
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4 Easy Ways to Nurture the Development of Executive Skills this Holiday Season!
The holidays are a busy time for everyone! Everyone inevitably feels tired from all the planning, travel, preparation, and added...
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Conquering Math Fear
Children are born curious - they’re born taking risks, find joy in making mistakes, and are amused by productive struggle. Yet, somewhere...
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When Adults Jump to Rescue
When children face a problem or are challenged, our immediate reaction is to fix the problem for them. We want to alleviate the pain and...
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MY CHILD CAN'T GET THINGS DONE ON TIME
Some kids are naturally fast; they are always a beat ahead to laugh at jokes, quick to respond or think of a comeback, react fast while...
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5 Research Proven Efficient and Effective Ways to Study and Learn
Students are told to study, but they genuinely don't know how when it's time. More often than not, students think of studying as...
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The new buzz word, EF skills, what's all the talk about?
Everyone’s talking about EF skills, executive function skills. It’s the new hip word ubiquitous on social media, parenting discussions,...
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Summer Packing? - Take advantage of this opportunity!
My goodness- what a wild year we’ve had! Despite the hardships remote learning brought on, our kiddos were resilient, and each grew in...