Barbara Coloroso – Giving Your Child the Gift of Inner Discipline I recently had the pleasure of attending Barbara Coloroso’s presentation sponsored by the West Vancouver School District Parent Advisory Council. Barbara Coloroso is a long-time internationally recognized, educator, parenting expert and author from the United States. I saw Barbara speak about 15 years ago and [...]
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How to Help Our Children Self-Regulate
In my last two newsletters I have discussed what self-regulation is and how to help ourselves self-regulate our emotions. Today I will discuss strategies for helping our children learn to self-regulate. Three Important Factors to Consider When Gaining an Understanding of a Child’s Self-Regulation Capabilities: 1) Developmental stage of the child’s nervous system 2) Temperament [...]
What is Self-Regulation?
Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sliceofchic/4941627622/ The Famous Marshmallow Test Recently I had the pleasure of speaking to the parents of Westcot Elementary and Inglewood Parent Participation Pre-School on the topic of Self-Regulation. In the last 3-4 years Self-Regulation has become a real buzz word although the concept has been around for a long time. Back in the 1960′s [...]
The Many Faces of Anxiety
Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mazboot/2328604292/ What Are Some of the Signs of Anxiety? We all have anxiety, in fact we wouldn’t be alive if we didn’t have anxiety! However, many individuals have high levels of anxiety yet it isn’t recognized until it becomes unmanageable or spirals into depression. The good news about anxiety is that a lot of [...]
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