By Lizzy Francis — 2020
Raising an empathetic and kind kid is a beautiful thing, but it’s also important to prepare kids for the real world.
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Trying to convince a middle schooler to listen to you can be exasperating. Indeed, it can feel like the best option is not to talk! But keeping kids safe—and prepared for all the times when you can't be the angel on their shoulder—is about having the right conversations at the right time.
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An urgent and necessary book, when the world feels like a scary place brings solutions to a problem that is only going to get worse—how bad things happening in the world affect our children, and how we can raise engaged and confident kids in spite of them.
Filled with secrets from a therapist’s toolkit, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before teaches you how to fortify and maintain your mental health, even in the most trying of times.
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In this class, psychoanalyst and author Erica Komisar discusses the science behind raising resilient adolescents, an age group that is facing more mental distress than ever. Ms.
This is a comprehensive guide for parents who want to raise emotionally healthy, resilient adolescents in a time of great stress when anxiety and mental health disorders are epidemic. In these times of great stress for our kids, resilience is not a given.
This book teaches drama and immersive theatre-based activities for parents and professionals working with children and young people on the autism spectrum.
Does your mother guilt trip you or emotionally blackmail you? Does she act competitively with you or take credit for your talent or accomplishments? These are all behavioral patterns of the narcissistic mother.
Educational psychologist and author, Michele Borba, shares her decade-long journey to discover how to optimize human potential. Surprisingly, it was children from Canada to Rwanda who offered the three best ideas to cultivate empathy.