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Parenting with Love and Connection
Read More: Parenting with Love and ConnectionOf course you love your children. And… have you ever had days where it seemed like you had to say the same thing over and over again? Or got frustrated stopping the bickering again and raised your voice or said something you wish you hadn’t? Yes. Of course. We nag, remind, reprimand, and give advice […]
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Patience is Not Permissiveness
Read More: Patience is Not PermissivenessWhether a student burps loudly in the middle of our lesson, someone calls out an answer instead of waiting their turn, one student is mean to another, or someone writes with a permanent marker on the dry erase board, there are going to be moments – and sometimes whole days – that try our patience […]
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Practicing Patient Parenting
Read More: Practicing Patient ParentingIt happens to most of us…there’s no cream for coffee, you are late leaving the house, the traffic is bad on the way home….and then one of our children unknowingly says or does something that pushes us over the edge. Out comes that “yelling” parent, leaving our child bewildered and us feeling guilty and regretful. […]
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Share Rituals to Build Community
Read More: Share Rituals to Build CommunityRoutines in the classroom are an important classroom management tool. Knowing what will happen when they arrive, where their belongings are stored, when breaks and lunch happen, are all part of the daily and weekly routines that help students feel safe and secure. The structure in their daily routines and interactions with others helps students […]
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Family Rituals Create Our Story
Read More: Family Rituals Create Our StoryFamily rituals and traditions are a positive source of identity for children. They provide a link between themselves and the people they love, a link between themselves and their culture and family history. They are different from simple routines. Routines are regular, moderately consistent process (bedtime, bath time, morning) that help children understand what comes […]
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Raising a Compassionate Child
Read More: Raising a Compassionate ChildCompassion develops over time as children grow. We know from research that the desire to help and comfort others comes naturally to us. Even two-year olds will offer a blankie or pacifier to a crying playmate. They may not understand why their friend is crying, but they want to help them feel better. By age […]
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Encouraging Compassion in the Classroom
Read More: Encouraging Compassion in the ClassroomWe can build classrooms that foster respect, compassion and deep listening, resulting in spaces where students feel safe and where healthy social skills can emerge. The word compassion comes from the words to be “with suffering.” It is our ability to step into the shoes of another person, to care for them without judgment. It […]
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Self-Regulation to Grow Engaged Learners
Read More: Self-Regulation to Grow Engaged LearnersAs educated adults we know that to lead a healthy life we should eat fewer fatty foods, exercise regularly and get enough rest…but we don’t always do it! That’s because we are all continually developing our self-regulation skills. Your students are the same. They may know what to do, but lack the self-regulation skills to […]
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Growing Children Who Can Calm Themselves
Read More: Growing Children Who Can Calm ThemselvesSelf-regulation is defined as the ability to manage your emotions and behavior in accordance with the demands of a situation. It’s the ability to calm yourself when upset, to resist highly emotional reactions to stressful stimuli, and the ability to handle frustration and adjust to a change in expectation. Children have varying degrees of self-regulation, […]
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Classroom Jobs
Read More: Classroom JobsSchool is finally out and the start of the new school year is a safe distance away. If you are like most teachers, part of your brain will be thinking about what little things you might improve in your classroom next year and those thoughts will be murmuring at you all summer. One of the […]
