Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits
As parents, our goal is to help our kids develop into young adults who are self-sufficient and ready to face the challenges of the outside world. To do this, we need to think about the habits that we will give our children so that they will have the tools that they need. To create kid habits, we need the right parenting strategies.
Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits are short videos about specific parenting strategies that you can use to help your child develop the skills they need to be successful adults in the future.
Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits: Promoting Scientific Thinking
Helping a young child learn and grow means encouraging their scientific thinking - how they ask questions and express their curiosity and wonder at the world around them. The activities that we pick to do with our children can help this flourish, even without taking a...
Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits: Don’t Solve All Their Problems
As parents, we always want to swoop and solve all of our kids' problems. The challenge with steamrolling everything out of the way is that it greatly reduces our children's abilities to be resilient and develop grit. https://youtu.be/1La-VJ8NEmk More Problem Solving...
Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits: Building Basic Math Skills
Building basic math skills in our kids is not just important for future school success. Understanding math is a fundamental part of understanding the world around us. Even if you are math-phobic, you can still help your child see the math in the world around them....
Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits: Gratitude Games and Activities
Who doesn't want their kids to show more gratitude? Encouraging kids to be thankful can be a challenge, though. Turning it into a gratitude game or activity can make saying thank you just a little bit more fun. https://youtu.be/APwusZHhoqg More Gratitude Game...
Gratitude is something we all want to have and we want to have our kids to demonstrate it, too. But, in our busy world, it can be difficult to find the time and energy to say thank you. Using a gratitude challenge is one strategy to promote it....
Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits: Belly Breathing
Deep breathing is a core part of helping children (and adults) calm their anxiety. It's also a crucial part of practicing mindfulness. But telling someone to breathe deep can often result in someone taking heaving breaths like they just ran 5k. Here's how to put your...
Proofreading Your Work
Perhaps one of the most important skills that kids can learn is how to proofread their own work. It's more than just looking over it and seeing if you answered all the questions. It's a skill that requires us as parents to continually reinforce the benefits and needs...
Promoting Better Behavior with a Marble Jar
There are lots of strategies that you can use to encourage better behavior in kids. The challenge with most systems is sticking with them and consistency. Another problem is that once you've encouraged a specific behavior, now what? Try this strategy that uses marbles...
Math All Around Us
Math seems to be an area that most parents are particularly challenged by. Changes in how math is taught coupled with our own negative experiences with math, make us reluctant to engage our kids with math in the same way that we do with reading. Yet, we can push past...