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Homework and Emotionally Intelligent Parenting: Seven Tips for the Tougher Days

June 24, 2010
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To keep your child feeling calm and capable at homework time, it is important to think about who they are as an individual. A child who feels capable and successful is at his best as a student and a person. Emotionally intelligent parenting at homework time involves nurturing feelings of strong self worth when the [...]
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Social Skills and Feelings Education: Turn Your Kids’ Favorite Media into Your Best Teaching Tool

June 24, 2010
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These simple single-syllable words: sad, mad, and glad, are the easy first emotion words for children to use in ‘feelings talk’. Then, as they grow, and their every day vocabulary expands, the important job for parents, educators and caregivers, is to help their kids develop the awareness and the more expansive words to be emotionally [...]
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Social Skills and Feelings Education: Five Ways to Coach Your Child on Emotions in Everyday Life

June 24, 2010
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When kids come home with A’s and B’s in reading writing and math, parents feel a sense of security that their children are building the skills that will help them succeed in life. Then there is another set of important skills, which help our kids get smarter about the emotions they feel and encounter on [...]
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Feelings Education: Getting Beyond Sad, Mad and Glad

April 13, 2009
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Those simple single syllable emotion words are the first and easiest for young children to learn. Then, as they grow, it is time for parents, educators and caregivers to help them move beyond sad, mad and glad… A Different Curriculum When kids come home with A’s and B’s in reading writing and math, parents feel [...]
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