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How can I get my child to focus and concentrate on school and homework? (Part I)

Teachers and parents often struggle with getting kids (of all ages) to focus and concentrate. The ability to concentrate on less-than-exciting tasks is a critical skill for kids to build. They not only need to build this skill for school, but…
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How to Help Your Child Identify and Process Feelings

Big feelings like frustration, embarrassment, worry, fear and anger can be difficult emotions for kids to process. Young children don’t yet have the words to describe their feelings and, therefore, use other ways to get them across. Tantrums,…
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Preventing Tantrums: Instilling Daily Calm is Key 

The mind, hard to control, Flighty—alighting where it wishes— One does well to tame. The disciplined mind brings happiness. ~Buddha   We’ve all been there...you tell your child she cannot have that candy bar at the…
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How to Help Your Child Set Goals

In his timeless book Think and Grow Rich (one of the best-selling books of all time), Napoleon Hill revealed that EVERY single successful person had two “common denominators” for success: they set a specific goal and created a plan for achieving…
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Top 5 Christmas Gifts for Kids for Mindfulness & Personal Growth

Top 5 Gifts for Kids (that foster their personal growth!) At this time of year we tend to run around buying our kids everything on their holiday list. Sure, it’s great to see their little faces light up when they open a Barbie Dream House…
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What is growth mindset and why it is important for your child!

Mindset theory is a term that was coined some 30 years ago by Stanford University faculty psychologist Dr. Carol Dweck. Mindset theory offered a way to understand the effects of the beliefs that individuals hold for the nature of intelligence.…