An Easy Way to Reduce Stress and Strengthen Relationships in Your Family
Read More: An Easy Way to Reduce Stress and Strengthen Relationships in Your FamilyWant to play? What? Too busy doing important things to play? It turns out (check out this research), play is extremely important – for just about everyone and everything, but especially for learning and developing children. But why? Stress: It turns out play reduces stress (and therefore) facilitates learning. We know stress lowers the amount […]
The Surprising Benefits of Play in the Classroom
Read More: The Surprising Benefits of Play in the Classroom“Play is a strategy for learning at any age. While older students and their teachers might have more curricular demands than younger students, playful learning still has an important role to play…” – Project Zero Researcher Mara Krechevsky, Harvard Graduate School of Education After years of pandemic disruption, are we feeling pressure to catch students […]
Developing Firmness Tools for Educators
Read More: Developing Firmness Tools for EducatorsWhen we can respond to students in ways that are both connected and firm, both adults and students benefit. But how do we do that? Children need compassion and boundaries, connection and high expectations – at the same time. But most of us did not grow up with this model or learn it in our […]
Developing Firmness Tools for Parents
Read More: Developing Firmness Tools for ParentsKind compassion and grounded firmness are critical to effective parenting. If we can do both, our parenting takes on a strong even keel, so that in stormy times or calm, we know we are getting where we want to go with our children in a way that has direction and purpose. Both parents and kids […]
The Great Reset for Families
Read More: The Great Reset for FamiliesPriya Parker, the author of The Art of Gathering, encourages us to enter into 2022 with conscious intention and in community. Recently, she discussed her ideas for a concept called “the great reset” on Brené Brown’s podcast. Parker calls upon us to recognize the gift of our times: “We are in a moment of creation. And that […]
The Great Reset
Read More: The Great ResetPriya Parker, author of The Art of Gathering, encourages us to enter into 2022 with conscious intention and in community. Recently, she discussed what she calls “the great reset” on Brené Brown’s podcast. What is the Great Reset? Parker describes it this way: “We are in a moment of creation. And that is something that few generations […]
Teachers Can Harness the Power of Ritual and Routine
Read More: Teachers Can Harness the Power of Ritual and RoutineAt this time of year, with heightened excitement and a looming break from school, the agreements you co-created with your class at the beginning of the school year and the everyday routines you have been establishing are things to lean on. Depend on that structure now, because it comforts them and helps them feel safe. […]
Routines, Rituals & Traditions in Families
Read More: Routines, Rituals & Traditions in FamiliesRoutines provide consistency and predictability. They help our kids feel safe, and we as adults feel more organized and less chaotic. Specifics of routines tend to be unique to each family. Rituals and tradition provide comfort for kids and more than that, tend to be the foundation of our childhood memories as we grow. They […]
Practice and Teach Kindness
Read More: Practice and Teach KindnessEducators are being encouraged to practice self-care more than ever before. This is not the solution to the many challenges and systems issues facing educators. However, it is helpful to practice those things that we can control, and that can improve our own mental and physical well-being. One of those things is to practice kindness […]
For Healthier Kids, Flip the Script on Self-Care
Read More: For Healthier Kids, Flip the Script on Self-CareOne way to help kids who are struggling is to try flipping the script – talk less about self-care and more about care for others around us. Research shows that kindness towards others is more beneficial for mental and physical health than self-care. Active kindness: helping others, volunteering, being generous and consciously kind, results in […]
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