Babies can be both pupils and teachers for care-givers and loved ones. By using the 5 senses we can help each child to develop life awareness and critical thinking skills. The more we sing, read and talk with infants the more the baby brain development.
Encourage Positive Friendships-Have a “Go-To-House”
Make your home a “go-to-house” that is a safe haven of acceptance and friendship in the neighborhood. You may have the opportunity to mentor positive friendships and change the life of a child.
Positive Friendships & Self-Esteem
Parents, teachers, caregivers, coaches and other caring adults are concerned with how to teach values and self-esteem to the children in their lives.
Soothing Techniques For Self-Care
When you are upset, you also need to have an arsenal of effective ways to calm yourself down and improving your mood. Sometimes unpleasant memories or negative self-talk will spark conflict in your heart.
What Makes a Family?
Families teach us that we can survive the pain of divorce, mental illness, abuse, alcoholism, suicide, unemployment, violence and all the other stuff that happens in life. The functional and flourishing family is most productive when it has goals and values as a unit.
When your family is supportive and respectful of the rights and dreams of each other, it is a wonderful spring-board to life.
Encourage Positive Traits with Feedback Not Criticism
It is just as easy to see yourself and the members of your family having positive character traits as to dwell on the failure and disappointment. What you focus on, you get more of. Shift your mindless chatter to good thoughts and look for the positive traits.
5 Tips for Family Resilience- Bounce Back From Adversity
As the economy becomes more unstable and family finances go up and down, I see those families who are able to weather the storm and those who are devastated and destroyed. What makes some families resilient and bounce back? Be a bounce back person.
Enhance Your Self Esteem With Three Encouraging Phrases
Many of us are hearing the word “shift” in the news, at the coffee shop and at church. The world is shifting by having earthquakes, hurricanes and floods. These natural disasters are forcing us to be aware of the environment