The Ultimate List of Age-Appropriate Chores for Children and Teens
There are many benefits to having children help around the home. Giving children chores can make them feel important, teach essential life skills, and help ease the workload for parents. Studies have found that providing children with tasks to complete early on will help create a solid work ethic while developing responsibility, self-reliance, and other vital life skills. Children are capable of handling much more than some people may first ...
11 Tips for Becoming a Peaceful and Calm Parent
Anger and frustration are universal human emotions, but that doesn’t mean you have to be a victim of negative feelings. As adults, we have an obligation to our family and ourselves to avoid allowing our emotions from getting the best of us. Let’s face it. Parenting is tough! When you simply want to pee alone or take a shower for more than two minutes without hearing little footsteps outside the ...
Upgrade Your Hike
How many times has someone told you to “take a hike”? Chances are they weren’t concerned with your cardiovascular health. When it comes to getting healthy and spending time together as a family, going for a hike is a great option, and with leaves beginning to change colors, and the long holiday weekend right around the corner, this is one of the best times of the year to take a ...
It’s Not Too Late! New Year’s Resolutions for Parents and Kids They Can Stick to That Will Make Life Better
It’s that time of year again when we take time to reassess where we are in our lives and based on that assessment, make what we refer to as New Year’s resolutions. In most households, the holidays are filled with lots of activity and don’t leave much time for thoughtful reflection, so your resolutions are probably made in the spur of the moment on New Year’s Eve or New Year’s ...
Establishing a Parent-Teacher Relationship
The first contact with your child’s teacher, in many ways, is the most important, This is the time you are building rapport and developing a relationship of trust. Therefore, an appropriate time and setting are important for the first brief encounter. A phone call, a note, or, best of all, an initial face-to-face meeting is best. A good time to contact your child’s teacher is during the first week. This ...
Helping Your Child at Home with Vocabulary Building
Parents are the first “language models” for children. The language children use is modelled, or based, on what they hear from their parents. Parents need to create an environment that enriches what a child hears. The words they hear, they will use with encouragement. To start, take a look for a moment at the words you use and how you use them, Children, who repeatedly hear, “I seen it” will ...
