20 Fun Ways to Teach Kids About Gratitude There's an upswing in conversations around "gratitude" during the holiday season. In an incredibly difficult year, this can be a challenge for some. As you make holiday plans, take this opportunity... Read more
5 Tips for Raising a Resilient Child With Strong Coping Skills With school years cut short and play-dates and birthday parties canceled for months on end, COVID has brought stress and uncertainty to our young ones. Some children have endured difficult situatio... Read more
Key Strategies to Teach Children Empathy (Sorted by Age) Empathy is a key ingredient in positive friendships and relationships. It reduces conflict and misunderstandings and leads to helping behavior, kindness, and even greater success in life in genera... Read more
3 Ways for Children to Support Children The feeling of achieving a goal is great! But sometimes the feeling of working to improve, getting better, and trying new things is even greater. When our kids become successful at something, we wa... Read more
7 Ways to Help Kids Cope with Big Life Changes Big life changes are inevitable, but that doesn’t make them any easier for children (or adults) to manage. As we face changes, we develop the skills of resilience. These seven strategies will help... Read more
7 Tips to Give Effective Feedback to Your Child Being a parent means guiding and shaping our child’s behaviour. Providing children with feedback—both praise and suggestions on how they can improve—is necessary. But how many times has our (well-i... Read more
Nurturing a Growth Mindset from Birth As a new parent, you may have heard about the importance of instilling a growth mindset in your child. If you get it right, a growth mindset can be a powerful thing. A recent study even showed it c... Read more
5 Effective Ways to Help Your Perfectionist Child Is your child self-critical and easily frustrated? Does he feel uncomfortable with new challenges or particularly difficult tasks? If so, your child may be a perfectionist. To many people, this do... Read more
5 Ways to Help Children Focus on What They Can Control We know that a sense of agency and control is key to happiness. Decades of research at the University of Pennsylvania shows that when people believe they can change their circumstances, they feel m... Read more
Helping Tweens and Teens Balance Screen Time During COVID During the COVID-19 pandemic, screen time for children and parents has become much more complicated. Stay-at-home orders required social lives to go online, remote learning has added hours of scree... Read more
How To Empower Children When They Struggle As parents, our instinct is to rush to the rescue when our children struggle. We want to say, “Don’t worry! I’ll fix it!” In the long-term, however, this “helpful” behavior only hurts our children.... Read more
3 Ways to Help Teens and Tweens Increase Their Sense of Control During COVID Teens and tweens are reforming boundaries and expectations as they prepare for adulthood, and increasing autonomy helps them thrive. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, schools and families alike... Read more