Parenting Our Children

Some of the anxiety associated with math comes from the need to be perfect, to always get the right answer.

How can you notice this imbalance in your children? Pay attention to the way they speak.

Both instilling motivation and creating a safe space are integral parts of learning, helping students feel that they both want to learn and that the conditions are right for learning.

I am so sorry about what happened to you and to your family. Please don’t feel guilty. You had no idea this would happen.

Improving our social thinking begins with improving self-awareness, and is a skill that is used for much more than having successful social interactions.

Whether your child is at home or in school learning, incorporate brain breaks – time for movement that can actually jump start the brain.

In addition to the challenge of making lessons interesting, it’s difficult for teachers to gage the progress of students.

What’s the problem with our decision-making process? How can we deal with it even in this most stressful times?

Don’t get stuck on the “who” of the feedback. Instead, focus on the “what.”

For those who have lost their regular routines, who go to sleep and wake up with uncertainty of what tomorrow will bring, it is likely that they are experiencing anxiety.

As soon as we wake up, we are (hopefully) motivated to join the world.

What about emotional and mental health issues? How do we get to the root of those? There are diagnostics, tests, and surveys to help diagnose emotional or mental issues. But, we all know that there are times that we get it wrong.

They went through the same process every year: Moshe kicking and screaming in the car on the way to school, two months of crying before he went to sleep, and then Moshe’s eventual resignation and despair for the duration of the year.

This year, with most camps closed and several months with no school, siblings have already spent lots of time together. This can make the conflict even more pronounced.

If your child is struggling with an activity, consider speaking to the teacher about his or her goals for the activity.

Get creative – and collaborative. Brainstorm your children’s passions and come up with large projects that they can work on by themselves or with a friend or family member remotely.

While the virus still affects our daily lives and our futures are uncertain, we can still recognize that there is a lot of work...

Often we have negative voices that we listen to in our heads. Voices that tell us that we are a “loser,” that we will “never succeed,” or that we need to be better at something.

Some blow up dozens of times a day, others just a few times a week. Some ‘lose it’ only at home, others only in school, and still others in any conceivable location. Some scream when they become frustrated, others become physically or verbally aggressive.

Without enough sleep, teens can feel like they are walking around in a perpetual haze. And this haze can lead to disastrous consequences.

When classes end, it is incredibly important to get your kids reading, especially if they struggle with reading during the year.

While I am not calling to question the diagnoses of medical professionals, there are many children who exhibit signs of ADHD but may be struggling with something else.

Labels are great because they are clear and defined, but when we only see the label, we lose the individual.

For most children, listening is the first entry point into a text, and we finally have the technology to allow children (and adults) to listen to almost any printed book.

It’s important to recognize why we feel anxiety. If we didn’t have any anxiety, we wouldn’t know to be cautious around dangerous things.

Don’t “should” yourself. In times of uncertainty, it’s incredibly important to be kind to yourself. There is really a “should” when you don’t know what the future will bring.

As a global crisis forces us to reevaluate our ethos and values, perhaps this is the time to focus on our elderly...

The only thing we can be sure of as a constant is change. Change is hard and we are often resistant.

We avoid difficult conversations, we react with anger, and we eat our feelings without knowing why.

The issue is that the food only temporarily satisfies the emotional hunger. After eating, the person usually feels shame and guilt and has not gotten to the root of the emotion to begin with.