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Conscious Behaviour Begins at Home
Conscious awareness of our own behaviour will appear naturally, and in bursts, throughout our childhood and early adulthood, but only if the early work is done by our parents or by the social environment in which we live. For Mr Butterfly, … Continue reading
Posted in Boundary Setting, Home Environment
Tagged behaviour, boundary setting, child, children, communication, discipline, emotion, family, kids, maturity, naughty, parenting, psychology, raise, risk-taking, self-assurance, self-assured, self-esteem, sociology, stress, tantrum, understand people
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Parents: Allow your Children to Manage their OWN Risk
Alongside Mr Hare using his abilities in Executive Function last Friday, (Executive Function – A Story) there was also an aspect of managed risk in the scenario. Mr Owl (age six) decided to tag along for the ride and took his … Continue reading
Posted in Parenting Tricks, Signs All's Well
Tagged allowing children to manage risk, behaviour, boring cuddles, child, children, emotion, family, kids, learning to manage risk, managing risk, maturity, overwhelmed, parenting, raise, risk, risk management, risk-taking, self-assurance, self-assured, self-esteem, understand people
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Parents: Free Play Matters – Mindful Disconnection – Pt Six
After all the discussion about toxic people vs great people having toxic moments in a recent post, I’m ready for something a little less heavy! (As great as it was to having everyone’s input.) While this isn’t the post I … Continue reading
Posted in Boundary Setting, Home Environment, Self-Esteem?
Tagged behaviour, child, children, communication, decision making, emotion, executive function, family, free play, free range kids, free range learning, kids, learning, maturity, mindful disconnection, parenting, play, problem solving, psychology, raise, risk, risk-taking, self-assurance, self-assured, self-esteem, temperament, understand people
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Mr Owl Turned Six
I feel like I’ve been saying, the Owl is nearly six, for a long time. And now here we are, the big event has now been and gone. He had an Almost Overnight Party. I got the idea from Carrie at The … Continue reading
Posted in Home Environment, Parenting Tricks, Self-Esteem?, Signs All's Well, Temperament
Tagged behaviour, boring cuddles, child, children, communication, emotion, family, help melancholic children, highly-sensitive, highly-sensitive children, ideas for melancholic children, kids, melancholic, overwhelmed, owl, parenting, parenting melancholic children, play, raise, risk, risk-taking, self-assurance, self-assured, self-esteem, stress, temperament, understand people
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Trust – Part One
About a year ago, the Hare started taking longer bike rides. Not just around the small block, the medium block or the big block: he wanted to stretch his wings a little more. The first few times he was great: he went, … Continue reading
Posted in Home Environment, Parenting Tricks
Tagged behaviour, breaking trust, butterfly, child, children, choleric, family, hare, kids, maturity, naughty, overwhelmed, owl, parenting, phlegmatic, psychology, risk, risk-taking, sanguine, temperament, trust, trust children, trust in families, trust parents, trusted, understand people
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Parents Please: Provide the Facts not the Horoscope
“Look out,” she screamed, “you’re going to fall and bang your head, and then it will crack open,and blood will go everywhere, and it’ll really hurt and I can’t cope when you’re hurt, and it’ll be a huge mess to clean up, and … Continue reading
Posted in Home Environment, Parenting Styles, Parenting Tricks
Tagged behaviour, boring cuddles, chance, child, children, creativity, emotion, emotional flooding, empathy, family, kids, learn, maturity, overwhelmed, parenting, play, psychology, raise, risk, risk-taking, self-assurance, self-assured, temperament, understand people
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Signs of Great Parenting: Babies and Toddlers
(Firstly, don’t panic. Often being a good-enough parent is good enough. The information is indicative of things going really well, if it doesn’t match your children - consider how you might make small changes rather than feeling guilty and doing nothing, or dismissing the information out … Continue reading
Posted in Parenting Tricks, Signs All's Well, Temperament
Tagged babies, baby, behaviour, boring cuddles, child, children, choleric, family, good parenting, great parenting, hare, kids, maturity, melancholic, naughty, overwhelmed, owl, parenting, phlegmatic, psychology, raise, risk, risk-taking, sanguine, self-assurance, self-assured, self-esteem, signs of good parenting, signs of great parenting, sociology, temperament, toddler, understand people
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