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: The Mindful SEAT
We all get aggravated and frustrated from time to time. Here's a mindfulness strategy that we can teach to our older kids to help them (and us) calm down. https://youtu.be/bZJ1eNDPAFg
Chores and Children: Yes, It Can Be Successful
Most of the time, we don't love having to do our chores and neither do our children. But doing chores keeps a household going and bringing our children into the chores helps them learn some valuable life lessons and skills. Watch this Instagram Live recording to learn...
Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits: Top Reasons Why Kids Misbehave
Kids' behavior can be puzzling and their misbehavior even more so. We're often perplexed as to why our child acted out which then makes it even harder to prevent it from happening again. If we think about the reasons that kids misbehave, though, we have a better...
Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits: Helping Kids Develop Gratitude
It's never too late to help your kids learn to be grateful. Gratitude helps them show appreciation and can help them be mindful of their own actions. https://youtu.be/MnmXyhcwmFw
Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits: Getting Your Kid to Think about Thinking
Metathinking means thinking about thinking and this is a challenging skill for our children. It takes time and the development of some executive functioning skills to help build it up. Here's a strategy to help encourage it along. https://youtu.be/zZ-l8EFfyg8
Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits: Getting Kids Involved in Dinner
Planning and cooking dinner for a family can be stressful, particularly when your kids are spectators and not participants. Here are some simple ways to pull them into the process. https://youtu.be/hrbPPpHF5SY
Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits: Springing Forward
For parents, changing the clocks twice a year is a royal pain in the neck. It disrupts not only our own sleep cycles but our kids' as well. With a little preparation, though, you can make it less rocky this year. https://youtu.be/n-CF0ibGCSk
Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits: Build Confidence by Accepting Mistakes
It can be hard to accept the mistakes that our children make. But in accepting mistakes, we can teach our kids how to use failure to thrive and develop perseverance. https://youtu.be/lPXhWnAIktM More Parenting Strategies Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits: Promoting...
Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits: Coaching Your Child to Better Problem Solving
Problem-solving isn't a skill that just magically appears in our kids. It needs to be nurtured and encouraged. Otherwise, our kids will rely on us to be the solution to all of their problems. Here's one way to coach your child to better problem-solving skills....