Topics below: Separation Anxiety, Going back to school, School refusal, Making friends, Parenting, Holiday survival, Appreciating diversity and tolerance, Promoting kindness, Discipline, Raising confident children, Stranger safety, Summer fun and learning, Grade retention, Moving away, Divorce, Mindfulness & Raising polite and respectful children.
Separation Anxiety
A fantastic article about helping your child deal with separation anxiety.
Dealing with separation anxiety.
9 Parent-Tested Ways to Ease Separation Anxiety
A list of
fantastic books about going back to school and dealing with any fears that come
up.
Great
tips to help you encourage you kids to talk about their school day.
An
article that contains tips to help ease the transition and promote a successful
school experience. It covers preparing for the transition, overcoming anxiety
and having a successful first week back.
Helping
your kids transition back to the school routines.
Tips for
transitioning from Summer fun to school mode.
A parent
survival guide for back to school. Full of great tips on things to do to make
this time less stressful.
Essential
tips to help ease back into structure and school work.
Transition
back to school hints and helpful habits to begin.
5 Tips to
Get Your Kids Up for School: Expert advice on how to help your child get up in
time for school.
Start Your School
Morning Right: A good school morning routine can reduce stress
all year.
7 things to do in the summer to get
ready to go back to school
School refusal
School
Refusal - Kids Who Don't Want to Go to School
http://www.empoweringparents.com/what-can-i-do-when-my-child-refuses-to-go-to-school.php?utm_medium=email&utm_source=email09102013NX&spMailingID=42548008&spUserID=MjE1MzEzMzYxOTUS1&spJobID=202409463&spReportId=MjAyNDA5NDYzS0
What can you do when your child refuses to go to school.
Making friends
Helping your child make friends and
the power of play.
Recognizing a bad friend and helping
your child deal with it.
Some great tips about helping you
child develop friendships and setting up positive play dates
An article about the importance of
friendships and learning how to build them.
What friendship looks like at
different ages
A collection of research based tips
to helping children make friends. This is not only limited to young children.
What to do when kids have trouble
making friends
Helping your child make friends in a
new school
How to help a child who is fighting
with their friends
Good friendship skills you can help
your child learn.
Helping
your child solve social problems.
Helping an anxious child make
friends.
Helping a child with ADD/ADHD make
friends.
Helping a child overcome shyness in
order to make friends.
Helping an introverted child make
friends.
Helping a socially isolated child
make friends and the importance of friends for social development.
Helping your child cope with social
and friendship issues.
Some fun straightforward tips you
can read with your child about making friends.
How to help your child make and keep friends.
How to respond to your child saying
they have no friends when the teacher tells you that is not the case.
Stages of social play in
preschoolers and how to help your child advance through them.
A great way to respond to the
comment ‘no one wanted to play with me’
Tips for parents about helping
create a community of friends for their child.
Helping your child make friends in a
new school.
Discusses the process of how kids
make friends.
Do kids need friends? Yes! They do.
Parenting
Nurturing
Positive Development in School Age Children
Sign up
for online parenting workshops and podcasts.
Positive
parenting tips divided into age categories.
Sign up
for weekly parenting tips.
Top ten
tips for parents from the triple P parenting program.
Top ten
list for managing you child’s behavior
8 ways to
be a better parent
A list of fabulous parenting books.
Nine steps
to more effective parenting
General Parenting websites:
Holiday survival
Getting through the holidays with a
defiant child.
Parenting tips can help ease the
stress of the holidays.
How to handle holiday stress
Holiday stress and anxiety in
children
Tips for Holidays and Parenting:
Letting Joy Win over Stress
20 Holiday time-saving tips
Ideas for what to do when kids are
home all; day on holiday
Christmas fun for kids
Some fun and unexpected holiday
traditions to start this year.
Start Your Own Holiday Family
Traditions
Co-Parenting, after divorce, through
the holidays
A fantastic article about raising
‘unspoiled’ children.
Teaching children to be charitable
Mindful Gift Giving for Families:
How holiday gift giving shapes children's lives.
http://kidshealth.org/parent/firstaid_safe/outdoor/family_travel.html
Staying Healthy While You Travel.
http://www.parenting.com/article/stay-healthy-travel-guide
Keeping young children healthy while traveling
Keeping young children healthy while traveling
Teaching children to give to others with grace.
Teaching gentleness in a violent world.
Teaching your child charity
Teaching your children about donation and charity
Teaching kids to give during the holidays
A fantastic website about kids making a difference and giving back. It is by kids and for kids.
Teaching children to be charitable
A website for children who are interested in giving back and service projects. Younger kids will need a little support with this website.
Fun Holiday activities and traditions
Appreciating
diversity and tolerance
Raising a child who respects differences
Wiping out prejudices before they start
Teaching your child tolerance
A handout about helping your child learn to respect diversity
Teaching young children to appreciate diversity
Teaching your child to appreciate the differences that make us special.
Diversity and children’s mental health
Information about prejudice on a website meant for children
A website for kids about UN Day
Teaching your child to be tolerant of diversity
An article about nurturing tolerance in order to reduce bullying
Helping your child learn and play in a diverse world.
Teaching children about diversity
Expert answers and parent questions regarding teaching your child
about diversity
How racist adults around your child affect their development
A website dedicated to teaching tolerance and appreciation of
diversity
Promoting tolerance and peace in your child
Ten steps towards raising a tolerant child
Promoting kindness
Ideas for Random Acts of Kindness Week
Kindness ideas
Share your kindness ideas with the world.
Teaching children gentleness in a violent world
Teaching kids to love themselves and others
20 truly sweet ways to show kindness to your child.
Raising a compassionate child
Teaching kids to be kind to animals
30 ways to teach kids to be kind
Many ideas on
what you can do with your kids to be kind to others.
The importance of
teaching kids to be kind.
Teaching your children compassion
Information about Random Acts of Kindness week and how
you can get involved next year.
A website dedicated to teaching kids about kindness
How to teach your children to be kind as well as a
reading list divided into appropriate age groups.
16 great random acts of kindness
A webpage with a lot of resources to help teach kids to be kind to
animals
A light article reminding us why kindness is so important
If you are interested in getting involved and spreading kindness
globally
A fantastic list if kindness ideas!
Discipline
An article regarding whether or not
you are too tough on your kids.
Age-appropriate discipline
Discipline with love and care.
Five factors that affect how
effective your discipline strategy is.
Some common disciplinary issues in
children ages 5-10 and how to deal with them.
Discipline strategies for every age
group
9 biggest discipline mistakes that
parents make
Top 7 tips for disciplining children
Tailor
your discipline to your child’s temperament
Six ways to discipline.
Discipline for an out of control family.
7 secrets of toddler discipline.
A fantastic toolkit of discipline strategies organized by
age and behavior.
Discipline strategies
divided by age group
Some tips on the best way to discipline a child
8 Discipline
mistakes that parents make
5 Discipline
problems…solved.
The golden rules of toddler discipline
Do you find that you are using ‘time-out’ too many times?
Five discipline traps to avoid
21 mom-tested discipline tricks
Discipline without guilt. It is your job as a parent. It is
not damaging to your child…on the contrary.
6 Little behavior problems you should not ignore
Raising confident children
How to help you be more assertive so
you can model it for your kids
5 tips for raising confident and
assertive girls.
What is assertiveness…this is an
article you can also have your teen read, if you have one.
http://www.pediatricservices.com/parents/pc-56.htm
How to raise a child that will stand up for themselves.
http://themodernparent.net/8-ways-to-improve-assertiveness-for-parents-and-their-children/
Helping parents and children become more assertive.
http://www.askdrsears.com/topics/child-rearing-and-development/12-ways-help-your-child-build-self-confidence
12 ways to help your child build self-confidence
http://www.ahaparenting.com/_blog/Parenting_Blog/post/10_Ways_to_Raise_a_Competent,_Confident_Child/
10 ways to raise competent and confident children
http://kidshealth.org/parent/emotions/feelings/confidence.html
Raising confident children
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/creative-development/200909/raising-confident-child
Is your child confident?
http://www.bblocks.samhsa.gov/family/time/raisingconfidentchildren.aspx
How to raise confident children and the importance of it
How to raise confident children and the importance of it
Stranger safety
A great handbook with tips and ideas of how to talk to your child
about personal safety as well as what to do in an emergency. It is a little
biased towards North American procedures and law enforcement but still has some
great tips and ideas.
Tips on how to talk to your kids about strangers
How to talk to your kids about strangers
Quick and straightforward prevention tips to keep your kids safe
Great advice regarding calling strangers ‘tricky people’ instead
of strangers while teaching kids to stay safe.
Stranger safety website for kids.
Teaching kids about ‘Tricky people’ instead of strangers
How to talk to your kids about strangers
A list of websites and articles devoted to stranger safety
How to teach your kids to be safe from strangers in cyberspace
10 things to teach your kids about strangers
Talking to kids about strangers without scaring them
Talking to your kids about strangers beyond just saying…’don’t
talk to strangers’
Summer fun and
learning
A site with dozens of links to other
articles that focus on summer learning activities and what to do to prevent
summer learning loss.
Sneaking summer learning into
various activities
Preventing summer learning loss. Some
research-based activities
Back to school tips for the summer
divided up into things that should be done in July and August.
Some summer learning activities.
This article includes links to reading, math and science activities
What is summer learning loss and
what can you do about it.
Activities for summer fun with your
kids
More fun summer activities
Parenting in the summer: tips for
good behavior
Grade retention
How to talk to your child about
retention.
http://school.familyeducation.com/anxiety/school-readiness/38773.html
Provides tips on how to talk with
your child about being retained and what to do over the summer to prepare for
the new school year.
Moving away
How to say goodbye to a best friend
An article that outlines some steps
that kids who are moving can take in order to ease the transition to a new
school.
Transition Points: Helping Students
Start, Change, and Move through the Grades
Helping
your child say good-bye to friends and teachers at the end of the school year.
Divorce
A collection of articles regarding parenting after divorce.
Mindfulness
Six steps for teaching mindfulness to your children
11 ways to bring mindfulness into your own life
A lengthy article regarding the benefits of mindfulness and how to teach it.
The Mindful Child: How To Help Your Kid Manage Stress and Become Happier, Kinder & More Compassionate (VIDEO)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sarah-rudell-beach-/8-ways-to-teach-mindfulness-to-kids_b_5611721.html
8 ways to t teach mindfulness to kids and how to start with yourself
Mindfulness to help kids with stress
What is a mindful child (video)
The implications of mindful parenting
The 5 main tenets of mindful parenting
The mindful parent newsletter and community
a website about how being a mindful parent can positively impact your child.
Raising Polite and Respectful Children
A video about teaching kids to be respectful.
An article about teaching kids to be respectful as well how to deal with rudeness
How to raise a polite child
Five secrets to raising a courteous and well-mannered child
Raising a polite and respectful child
A collection of links to articles about teaching respect in various situations.
Steps for raising polite and obedient children.
Seven tips for instilling manners in your child
Tips for raising respectful children
How to raise polite kids
9 ways to change your kids’ attitude.
Guidelines for raising a respectful child.
6 ways to raise respectful children
How to handle disrespectful behaviors
http://www.supernanny.co.uk/Advice/-/Parenting-Skills/-/Discipline-and-Reward/Stop-the-backchat.aspx
How to stop disrespectful behaviors and back chat.
Being thankful and showing gratitude
Take the gratitude challenge
In this book, Dr. Borba addresses the most prominent of bad attitudes, examining their roots, and the ways in which well-meaning parents can make a difference.
Parenting solutions for a selfish and spoiled child.
Ways to raise a thankful child
Raising a thankful child.
From Entitled to Thankful: Raising Children with an Attitude of Gratitude
How to Raise Thankful Kids
Steps for raising thankful children
5 Ways to Raise a Grateful Child
Raising a Child Who's Thankful (Not Spoiled)
Bullying
The difference between being mean and bullying
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