Discipline & Behavior, Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips, Preschool, Toddlers Kids and Conflict: Social Skills That Build Healthy Friendships During these challenging and uncertain times, children are socializing in very small groups, if at all. Although a small “social pod” is... Continue Reading
Books, COVID-19, Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips, Temperaments 8 Tips to Support Your Shy Child during COVID-19 As a parent of a very shy child, I’ve worried that my daughter’s introverted personality will affect the way people see her, and might... Continue Reading
COVID-19, Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips No Great Options: Resiliency and Learning in a Pandemic Basically, there are no perfect learning options for our children this year. There are ‘pods’, distance learning, a few in-person... Continue Reading
COVID-19, Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips Creating Your At-Home Classroom: A Multi-Sensory Approach With the change from the school environment to computer-based learning at home, children don’t receive the important multi-sensory... Continue Reading
COVID-19, Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips Finding Peace at Home—Advice from Dr. Ken Ginsburg COVID-19 has created a great deal of uncertainty in our lives. We’ve changed our routines and taken on new parenting roles like teaching... Continue Reading
Choosing Schools, COVID-19, Parenting Tips 7 Tips to Help Parents Navigate the School/Childcare Dilemma It’s mid-July and parents all over are worrying about what will happen with school and childcare in the fall. Everyone is concerned... Continue Reading
Parenting and Race, Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips Raising Our Children through the Lens of Empathy, Diversity, and Respect In response to the events following George Floyd’s death, my son’s first grade Montessori teacher hosted a family Zoom lesson on... Continue Reading
Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips Three Ways for Parents to Respond to “I’m Bored” Does it drive you crazy when your kids say, “I’m bored”? It may be helpful to examine three possible ways to respond to their cries of... Continue Reading
Gender Diversity, LGBTQ+, Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips Supporting Gender Diversity On June 15th, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed that the 1964 Civil Rights Act protects the LGBTQ+ community from employment... Continue Reading
Nutrition, Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips Using your Kitchen as a Classroom—8 Key Ingredients for Purposeful Play in the Kitchen By Kylie Hunter MOT, OTR/L We all probably spend at least some time in the kitchen on a daily basis–and this time has most likely... Continue Reading