Posts Tagged ‘praise’
Have You Been Validated Today?
If you are feeling blue and need a smile and a big shot of energy, watch this amazing video. It will do the trick in 15 minutes of your time. It’s so beautiful and uplifting.
If you already feel great, it’s just icing on the cake! Read more
Guide Children with Encouragement
Encouragement is not just saying “good job” to a child, it is continually building a child. Children who feel good about themselves behave in positive ways. Here are some ideas to help us encourage these little people. Read more
What Temperament is Your Child?
Temperament, a valuable concept for parents, describes the differences in how children receive, digest, and express their experiences. Understanding each child’s temperament can show us how a child may handle new experiences and how he will respond to new challenges.
Temperament is made up of many factors: activity level, regularity, sensory, threshold, and mood. These traits are probably largely inborn.
“Differences in temperament, even at the extremes, are in the normal range of behavior. There is a ‘poorness of fit’ when the parent’s expectations are beyond the child’s temperamental abilities.” Stella Chess, MD Read more