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Social Emotional Learning in the Classroom: Simple Tools for the New School Year

Social emotional learning starts in everyday classroom moments. Explore simple SEL strategies teachers can use to build emotional literacy, support regulation, strengthen relationships, and create a classroom where children feel safe, understood, and ready to learn.

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Positive vs. Negative Reinforcement: A Guide for Parents

Learn how positive vs. negative reinforcement influence your parenting style and the ways positive reinforcers can support your child’s development.

Mother comforting her highly sensitive teenage son during an emotional moment, illustrating parental support, empathy, and teen mental health.

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Helping Your Highly Sensitive Child Gain Confidence

When our children are highly sensitive, rejection and criticism hurt more deeply. They get embarrassed easily and have strong emotional reactions, which can make them the target for bullying. Here are 5 tools to boost your child's confidence.

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Healing From A Childhood You Don't Remember

While we may not remember our childhood with our mind and verbal words, our body keeps the score and stores the information it receives from our formative years, namely which parts of us to grow and which to shrink. These downloads show up as patterns in adulthood and in our parenting. Read more.

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9 Mantras I Use When Low On Patience With My Kids

Mantras can change the wiring of our brain and create a new lens to see ourselves, our kids, and the world at large. Here are 9 parenting mantras I use when low on patience with my kids.

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End Sibling Rivalry And Bring Peace Into Your Home

Siblings are natural competitors for attachment, bidding for our love and attention. Here's 3 Parenting Do's and Don'ts when it comes to sibling relationships.

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Santa's 'Naughty List' Has Been Canceled This Holiday Season

The holiday season is meant to be a magical time, but often it is used as leverage to control a child’s behavior. We have a real opportunity to rewrite the narrative. Here's how.

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Beyond the 9-to-5: A Woman's Journey from Professional to Stay-at-Home Mom

Leaving your career to stay home with your kids is a big shift. Discover how to manage the emotional impact, find your footing, and embrace this new chapter with confidence.

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To My Strong-Willed And Sensitive Boy

A poem to her son. One mom watches her strong-willed boy drift to sleep and she sees the child under the big emotions and power struggles, and it restores her for whatever tomorrow brings.

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Keep The Gaze

This is one mama's poem about watching her boys grow from babies to young men.

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I Didn't Make My Kids Sit On Santa's Lap And They Are Better For It

Children are wired to seek approval from their caregivers because it is how they are designed to survive. How we respond as parents to our children’s intuition and their bids to voice their consent greatly impacts their ability to speak their truth, set boundaries, and trust who they are. Read more.

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Dear Daughter: A Spoken Word Poem

Grab your tissues. This heartfelt video captures the love and prayers one father carries for his unborn child: "The pain and the pleasure, they are buried treasure. Get your hands dirty..." - Kurt Peloquin

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Allowance And Chores: For Learning Or Earning?

Is allowance a form of bribery and reward to get kids to do their chores, or is it a way to teach our children about money management? We take a look from a positive parenting lens.

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4 Effective Ways To Break The Generational Cycle Of Yelling

I yell. I was yelled at. My guess is, my parents were yelled at too. Poor emotional regulation - and its wounding - has been handed down from one generation to another. Here are 4 effective ways to break the cycle so that our children don't have to carry that shame. It stops with us.

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Don’t Just Set Intentions, Rewire Your Brain. Here's How.

By the time we are 35 years old, 95% of who we are is a memorized set of behaviors, emotional reactions, unconscious habits, hardwired attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions that function similar to a computer program... but we can rewire our brains. Here’s how.