Follow me “I tell my kids that I am their safety net. They should come to me with anything. No matter what, I will not judge, but we will work it out together.” On the What I Wish Podcast, my guest and I discuss building trust with your children. I learned so much from my guest this week. One of my favorite lessons from our conversations was that I should be my children’s safety net. Establishing yourself as your children’s safety net equates to building a relationship where your children trust you. How do you establish this trust? Listen Openly To effectively build trust with your child, you must exhibit…
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What Children Need the Most from their Parents.
Children have two basic needs. Children want love and attention. While I agree with Sandra, I think kids also need affirmations and consistency.
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Teaching Your Kids Resiliency
A child will be better equipped to manage stress if they learn how to recognize and deal with their emotions. They will be better equipped to handle stress, have less anxiety, and reduce the chance of depression.
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How To Teach Your Children About Their Self-worth.
Follow me One of the toughest experiences for a parent is the heart-wrenching feeling of helplessness when your child questions their self-worth by expressing that “nobody likes me” or “I have no friends.” Imagine a child going into a new experience, like the first day of school, especially the first day in a new school. How do you prepare a child walking into a new experience or unfamiliar environment to ensure limited anxiety around “nobody likes me?” Use Love to Teach your Children about Their Self-Worth The love of a family is the safest guard to the feeling of not belonging. A family’s love fills a void that many children…
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Kids Vision Board: Teach your Kids How to Set Goals by Creating Vision Boards
Using our free vision board template, you can help your kids practice visualizing their wants and wishes, and goals. This is a fun activity that can also help you understand how your kids think and helps them to establish a fun future and important goals.
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A Mothers Heartbeat: The Effect of Your Heartbeat on Your Kids.
For any mom who has ever questioned her worth, second-guessed her parenting skills, worried over a child’s wrong choices, longed to be a perfect parent, or desired to make a lasting impact on her son or daughter
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You Matter as Well: The Truth about Prioritizing Self-Care.
One of my most favorite things in the world is living a life of purpose. An essential part of living purposefully is recognizing that you exist for a reason. You wake up every day to fulfill a purpose. Choosing to have a family speaks to your values and is an essential part of the journey in fulfilling your purpose. But living a fulfilled life successfully is recognizing that you matter and taking the necessary steps to take care of yourself as a mom and a woman.
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Bob Books: Helpful Tips for Beginner Readers.
Studies have found that a key to success for a new reader is short, easy to read words that can be connected to form sounds. Bob Books provide these basic elements by starting with small short words that can easily be connected to sound.
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Loving Your Kids: Your Love is Enough.
What do you make of your daily efforts, what do you make of the laundry you do, the homework you help with, the breakfast, lunch and diner you make? What do you make of the kisses, the hugs, the visits to the park, the story time, the walks around the block, the kisses on a cscraped knee...the ”I Love yous”
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Grace for Teachers and Administrators.
Follow me I walked into my children’s school to meet the teachers, and after five months of quarantine and agonizing over the decision of whether to return to school in person, withdraw our kids and homeschool or opt for virtual learning. When we arrived at the school, I was pleasantly surprised and quite frankly thankful for all of the efforts the school went through to ensure safety protocols were in place—making a good case for re-opening schools safely. In-Person or Virtual Learning There are so many debates and confusion around whether kids should return to school in person or virtually. Although, virtual learning has played an important role for my…
