I had ask my then 7 year old to clean up the train tracks in the living room and was met with tears and,"Uuuhhggg! That's torture!" as he rolled around on the floor, apparently writhing in pain. It was so ridiculous that I'd usually find it funny, but at that moment I was so filled with anger at his [...]Continue Reading
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Offering Support During Angry or Sad Emotions
Since writing about trusting our kids emotions, I've been thinking more about the difficulty of staying present with people in pain. If we can manage to stay, we can support growth and healing, but how can we sit by while someone hurts? Think of your own experience - haven't you had a moment when [...]Continue Reading
3 Tips to Accept Mistakes and Raise Creative Problem Solvers
Why should parents be excited about their kids mistakes? How do mistakes increase creativity? To answer those question we've got today's post from Jillian Riley. Jillian is the blogger at Confidence Meets Parenting, a former early childhood educator and mom of two. ~Alissa Mistakes are the [...]Continue Reading
64 Positive Things to Say to Kids: Encouraging Words for Kids
What phrases do you say each day to your kids? Which ones do you want them to remember? In the years since my grandmother has been gone, I am still inspired to notice the good things in life when I remember the way she would pause at those good moments and say, “This, now, this is good.” To this [...]Continue Reading
Why I’m Glad My Son Failed Today
By Author and Kid Crafts Blogger, Maggy Woodley, of Red Ted Art. Part of Our Raising Problem Solvers series. On Failure... I just wanted to share our day with you today. Today, my son came 3rd in his class audience for the talent show. Which means he won't go through to the school [...]Continue Reading
Raising Problem Solvers – The One Question to Ask Before Helping Your Child
If there is one skill I wish I had taken more seriously earlier in parenting, it would be teaching my kids problem solving. I came into parenting with a mindset of wanting make my kids happy (I write a little about that in this piece on realizing it's ok for my kids to be angry sometimes.) I [...]Continue Reading
