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What Young Children Need You to Know About Separation Anxiety

by Rebecca Eanes

Children are born with a need for attachment and so it stands to reason that separation is a great fear for many children. This doesn’t mean we cannot ever be separated from them, but rather that we take time to understand the developmental aspect of this issue so that we can fulfill their need for attachment in our absence.

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Rewriting the Narrative On Terrible Twos and Tyrannical Threes

by Rebecca Eanes

The majority of the “problem behavior” that we see in children is because we are looking through a distorted lens. Tantrums are a developmentally normal emotional release when the child’s brain feels flooded with big feelings. Punishing a tantrum cannot make a brain develop faster, but there are things parents can do.

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Child Stress And How Emotional Intelligence Can Keep It In Check

by Alex Petrou

Stress is our body’s natural reaction to a challenging or adverse situation, whether real or imagined, which triggers the body’s fight-flight-or-freeze response. By learning to express emotions, listen actively, and consider multiple perspectives, children and adults alike can learn to control stress more effectively.

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Portable Emotional ToolKit for Sensitive Kids

by Guest Author

How do you discipline a highly sensitive child? Using time-ins help children understand and mange their deep emotional world, nurturing connection and emotional intelligence. Here are 8 tips to building a portable ToolKit for your child to help them regulate not only at home but on the go.

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Why Improv Is Not Just For The Stage

by Guest Author

We all improvise every day, and children are the ultimate improvisers. Through play and connection, improv games nurture brain development and bolster social-emotional learning. Here's how to do it. Plus get our E-Book: 10 Minutes of Play For 10 Days!

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Why Being a Sensitive Parent is a Good Thing

by Rebecca Eanes

I am a highly sensitive parent, and here is why it is a good thing. Plus 5 sanity-saving tips for fellow parents who are sensitive, too.

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Thank You: A Father’s Day Poem

by Guest Author

This mama writes a poem to her husband as she navigates her baby blues, teary eyes, breastfeeding, and raw limits.

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7 Parts Of The Parenting Pie

by Rebecca Eanes

At its core, parenting is about relationships, and in our search for the perfect discipline tricks, we've lost sight of that. Here are 7 pieces to the "parenting pie" that shape your child’s formative years.

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Help! My Child Prefers My Partner, Not Me

by Ashley Patek

What do you do when your child prefers one parent over the other? Here are tools for both the preferred and non-preferred parent. Spoiler alert: This is developmental, temporary and is nothing you are doing wrong.

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Why Is My Child Behaving This Way?

by Ashley Patek

Power struggles ... meltdowns ... defiance. Here's what's causing your child's behavior and tools for transforming it.

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Dr. Shefali's New Book on Conscious Parenting: Let's Get You a Signed Copy

by Guest Author

In this interview with New York Times Bestselling author Dr. Shefali, endorsed by Oprah herself as "revolutionary" in her approach to conscious parenting, we talk about it all: the insanity of cultural parenting norms emotions, not as facts but as "data" the challenge to parent differently than we were raised moving past guilt and shame and her new book, The Parenting Map. I was so moved by our interview that in the end, I did a thing. I made the offer to buy each of you a copy of the book. Check out the interview below. I hope you are as inspired as I am by the potential for us to reach families around the world with the concept of putting an end to punishment-based parenting. Buying thousands of books is a thing, but truly, I think we can do this. My goal is to ship thousands of books into the hands of you, our Generation Mindful members, because I know you will share it powerfully with others. So, this week only, anyone who buys our Digital Calming Corner and Time-In ToolKit will also get Dr. Shefali's new book The Parenting Map ($26 Value) shipped to them for FREE, with the US shipping included at no added cost. My apologies to our international members, but right now only US Shipping is possible. Dr. Shefali has offered to sign every book we ship to a community member and to come back for a private live event to answer our questions after reading the book. This offer is good on Digital Calming Corner & Time-In ToolKit® Bundle orders placed this week only. Thanks all! I'll keep you posted on follow-up event details which we will host FREE, live with Dr. Shefali in The Village, our community hub for parents, caregivers, and educators. Finally, for the busy people among us that want to learn more about the book and the offer, I made this 2-minute version of the video for you. I see you because I am you. ;) I hope you'll join us in this offer and the live online "book club" meetup to follow for all that get in on the offer.

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Emotional Intelligence is More Than Naming Emotions

by Alex Petrou

Emotional intelligence is more than naming emotions. Remaining calm when our child is emoting requires great patience, often more than we have in reserve.

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4 Reasons Your Child Can't Regulate Alone

by Ashley Patek

While it is often a hot topic and a buzzword, it turns out there are many misconceptions about self-regulation. Here are four.

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The Stories Kids Want To Tell About COVID

by Rebecca Eanes

Our children grew up in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Their brains developed in quarantine. Their bodies changed in lockdown. They are emerging from this as different people, and the impact it had on them is yet to be told. Here are 4 things we can do to support our children’s social-emotional health this school year ...

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3 Simple Tools To Gain Cooperation From Your Child (With Less Yelling From You!)

by Rebecca Eanes

When it comes to getting your child to listen, tricks and bribes only go so far. Eventually your kids will wise up to them, and because these tactics evoke a fight or flight response, they will rebel. Here are 3 tools to increase cooperation so that your kids want to work with you (instead of against you).

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Tuning Into Your Own Voice With 3 Simple Tools

by Rebecca Eanes

These 3 simple practices will help you learn to lean into your own voice, and with time and practice, you’ll be able to discern it above all others most of the time.

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Mama Of Two Neurodiverse Sons Uses ToolKit To Nurture Their Unique Minds

by Guest Author

We love reading stories about how our tools are living for families in their homes. Here’s a story that came in from mama Kelley Rufkahr with her children Wyatt, age six, and Emmett, age four.

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Move Your Body, Move Your Emotions

by Ashley Patek

Research has shown that dance has social-emotional benefits. When we communicate with our bodies, we are not expected to make sense of things. We just move, and this movement taps into deeper, more primal feelings. Read more.

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I Sent Myself To The Calming Corner And My Child Learned To Regulate Emotions

by Ashley Patek

Time-Ins are an opportunity for us adults to re-connect with our inner child and learn the skills of emotional regulation so that we can then model and teach these skills to our children. Here are 5 steps for taking a Time-In as an adult.

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Is Rushing Academics Detrimental To The Developing Brain?

by Ashley Patek

How do children best learn, and what happens when academics are the focus of pre-school and kindergarten? This study gives us some pretty telling answers.

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