The Role of Nurturing Moms in Brain Development A study recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports to have found clear evidence of the link between nurturing mothers and increased brain structures in children. Authors from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis claim that nurturing mothers are [...]
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Teaching Kids to Make Good Decisions Decisions, decisions. As adults we can weigh the odds and use our years of experiences and (hopefully) levels of maturity to make the best decisions possible, whether it is which job to pursue or which book to read. However, our kids don’t necessarily have those years of experiences or [...]
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Ways to Develop Your Son’s Emotional Health Snips and snails and puppy dog tails might have been how I once envisioned boys as I ran from them on the playground and dreaded standing next to one particularly rude young man in Super Choir. That was when I was 9 years old. Perhaps it was a [...]
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Pushing for Equal Success Can Result in Failure Apparently your child can get benched for being too good, at least if they play youth football in Arkansas like sixth grade Demias Jimerson. Using the Madre Hill rule, so named for the running back who dominated his youth league in the 1980s, the Wilson Intermediate Football League [...]
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Children who are able to tell tales and verbally share stories with others are doing more than practicing their speaking skills. Storytelling is an intricate combination of vocabulary, inflection, emotions, concepts of time, and social awareness. In yesterday’s post I described the value and importance of storytelling when it comes to adults sharing tales with [...]
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5 Tips for Raising Kind Kids Lessons about kindness and friendship can come in many forms, and teaching our children to pay it forward and understand the importance of the golden rule is one of the most important things we can do for our kids. Raising kind and conscientious children is deeply rooted in raising [...]
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Where have all the manners gone? That was the sentiment I sadly heard recently as I listened to two elderly individuals speak about several children careening around the local fairgrounds, oblivious to others around them. It’s not the first time I’ve heard adults question the apparent lack of consideration by children, and the sentiment always [...]
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The time we actually set the table for Oval and Charlie, the intriguing house guests who always graced our home alongside our 2 year-old son, I remember the look on my husband’s face. It clearly said, “Do you think it is time for them to leave?” He wasn’t being a rude host. He was [...]
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I had a very interesting incident with our three year old son and one year old daughter yesterday. I thought sharing it with you might cause you to rethink, whether or not yelling at your child is as effective as you hope it is. . . . . Here’s what happened: Because our daughter isn’t [...]
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