Given the popularity of the first two Managing Big Emotions Printable Posters (you can find poster one here and poster two here), today I have teamed up with the author of Kids Yoga Stories, Giselle Shardlow, to bring you a simple yoga for kids sequence to use as a calm down activity with your child. […]
9 Calm Down Ideas for Kids
Inside: A printable Calm Down Ideas for Kids Poster that works for both home and school. Last week I shared the 5 Steps to Managing Big Emotions Poster as a tool to help parents and children navigate those times when children are struggling to express their feelings in socially acceptable ways (you can find out […]
5 Steps to Managing Big Emotions: Printable Poster
Whenever I ask parents what their biggest parenting struggle is, patience is always right there at the top of the list. We struggle to keep our cool in all sorts of situations – when we are rushing to get everyone out the door, when we have asked our child 272 times to do something, when […]
Tantrums Aren’t Just For Two Year Olds
We regularly hear about the terrible twos and the troublesome threes but it’s not uncommon to hear that even older children have tantrums. How can this be when the experts tell us these angry outbursts are most typically a result of the frustration of young children as yet unable to verbally express their needs and […]
Dealing with Attitude
“He has such an attitude. And he’s only four!” “I thought I had years to prepare for this. No one warned me about dealing with a threenager!” “She’s five going on fifteen.” Have you ever commented on your child’s attitude? I am sure I have, especially as we live with a just-turned-five year old master […]
Kids Music 101: Music & Emotions – Music for Stimulating Positive Behaviour
This post is by regular contributor Christine Gora of Kids Music Toys. Marketers have known for years that music is a powerful tool for encouraging particular consumer outcomes. There has been much research into the effects that volume, speed, pitch and types of music have on product preference and even the amounts of money spent […]
Using a Reward Chart as a Positive Parenting Tool
As an early childhood teacher, I talked many parents through the process of successfully using reward charts as one tool in their parenting toolkit and recently (as parents of an almost three year old) we have had cause to put the good old reward chart into practice in our own home as well. Reward charts […]
