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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.

Your Child's Emotions Need Support, Not Solutions

When we attempt to fix our children’s emotions and problems, we move out of connection and into control. The focus shifts from them to us. Instead, we can sit with them in the hard stuff, offering support, not solutions. Here's how.

Social-Emotional Learning Starts At Home

Students who are self-aware and able to understand their emotions have a greater ability to relate to others, make decisions, and excel academically. Here is how to help your child develop social-emotional skills at home.

How Mindfulness Helped Me Focus My ADHD

I was diagnosed with ADHD at six-years-old. I was given medication that helped my teacher teach me and other students be around me, but it didn't help me learn skills to regulate my emotions. From a child who had a difficult time with emotions, to now working with similar kiddos, here’s what...

Helping Kids Process Their Emotions Free From Shame

If you’ve ever caught yourself wanting to tell an emotional child to just stop, (so basically, if you are a human being) here are three things to keep in mind that will help you help kids process their emotions free from shame.

Raising Emotionally-Intelligent Boys: One Mom's Journey

What do you do when the world around you tells you that you are too sensitive? Do you adapt to the social norms and shift who you are, or do you hush the noise of society to listen to your inner wisdom?

Study Finds That Emotional Intelligence Moves the Needle on Academic Success

A new study describes emotional intelligence as an important part of academic success from kindergarten into college.

Raising Teens: They're Still Under Construction

“Just wait until the teen years,” they’d say. Now I am here, and I get what they were referring to. Teens' fluctuating moods can be hard to deal with, but it's not our fault. Blame it on the brain.

Children Will Never Forget

Safe, powerful, connected. Supported, nurtured, and seen. These are just some of the ways we want our children to feel.

Manage Your Emotions, And Your Child's Too: Interview With Suzanne Tucker

You can actually be yelling at your child and be mindful. If you notice that you're yelling... pause, and celebrate. You say to yourself, 'I'm yelling, and I noticed I'm yelling' and then take a deep breath. Now you have some power. to do something different, but not if you're busy beating yourself...

Why Behavior Charts Don't Work For Most Kids

Behavior charts have been widely used over the past thirty years and while they may achieve the short-term goal of obedience, they miss the long-term goal of building the brain for life-long skills.

They Saw A Bratty Kid, But That Wasn't The Whole Story

What they saw was a bratty child. A clingy child. A spoiled child. And underneath it all, they saw a mother who wasn’t doing it right. But that wasn't the whole story. Our behaviors were communication for so much more.

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Pretending To Be Calm Is Not Helping Our Children

Your Child's Emotions Need Support, Not Solutions

Social-Emotional Learning Starts At Home

How Mindfulness Helped Me Focus My ADHD

Helping Kids Process Their Emotions Free From Shame

Raising Emotionally-Intelligent Boys: One Mom's Journey

Study Finds That Emotional Intelligence Moves the Needle on Academic Success

Raising Teens: They're Still Under Construction

Children Will Never Forget

Manage Your Emotions, And Your Child's Too: Interview With Suzanne Tucker

Why Behavior Charts Don't Work For Most Kids

They Saw A Bratty Kid, But That Wasn't The Whole Story

Together we are raising an emotionally healthy world.