Social & Emotional Intelligence

Are you a teacher or parent who finds themselves at their wit’s end when trying to handle conflicts among children? Are screaming matches and tears on the regular making teaching …

Self-Control. A life skill difficult to grasp and a challenge to develop. There are ways to help guide children, to nurture self-control. Between my go-to Montessori books, recently completing a book called …

I want my children to be grateful and to embrace gratitude for a lifetime. J is 3.25 and Y is almost 2 but I feel strongly that you can never …

How do you discipline a 3-year-old without shutting him down? To put it another way, how do you discipline a child in a way that he actually learns something from …

So, like many of you, this morning, I was making my nearly daily run through the Starbucks drive-thru with two reasonably happy, lucky me boys. I was in a great …

Teaching kids to be kind is possible. Well, let’s be honest, kids are born kind. It’s up to the adults in their lives to nurture this natural quality. And let’s …