Reframing Behaviors from a Negative to a Positive
Reframing behavior is important because it allows us to shift our perspective and empowers us to view situations, ourselves, and others in a more positive and constructive light.
Stages and Ideas for Block Play
Block play is highly beneficial and holds significant importance for children’s development. Blocks provide many opportunities to enhance cognitive skills which include problem-solving, spatial reasoning, logical thinking, and mathematical concepts.
Art and Healthy Child Development
As caregivers, we have the power to inspire our children to find their passions and welcome creativity into our homes.
Strategies to Help You Connect with Your Child
Your child’s connection to you is what helps them feel safe and secure in the world, both physically and emotionally. When you connect, it supports a secure relationship. Being responsive to a child’s physical and emotional needs consistently builds a more secure attachment.
Importance of a Healthy Attachment
Attachment allows children the ‘secure base’ necessary to explore, learn, relate, and the wellbeing/motivation with the opportunity to do so. Having a healthy attachment to your child is essential for their emotional, social, and cognitive development.
Raising Children with Optimism
Researchers say having an optimistic outlook contributes to people being happier, healthier, more successful, and less stressed.
Why Does My Child’s Behavior Trigger Me?
It’s not uncommon for a baby’s behavior to trigger feelings of frustration, anger, or other negative emotions in parents or caregivers. Triggers, which are personal to us, trigger our autonomic nervous system which helps us to feel regulated or dysregulated.
Strategies to Support Self-Regulation
It is easy to label challenging behavior as oppositional, disrespectful, defiant, and out of control. However, it is more helpful to understand this behavior as a sign that children cannot handle their big emotions and it may be hard for them to self-regulate when they feel overwhelmed.
Making Playtime Fun
Babies and toddlers love to play. Everything can seem like a game, and they may want to repeat this over and over again. This can feel overwhelming at times but making playtime fun with your children is a wonderful way to bond with them and create lasting memories.
Discovering Your Child’s Passions
We all want our children to find a passion that will motivate them to work hard and help them live a fulfilled life. As your child learns and grows, their interests and talents may change, but their passion will probably remain whether they realize it or not.