Ideas for Communicating with Children

5 Ways Parents Can Motivate Children at Home During the Pandemic – Without Nagging or Tantrums

Wendy Grolnick, a psychologist and parenting expert who has worked with parents in disaster situations, has studied how parents can help children become more self-motivated and decrease conflict in the family.

In this piece she shares some strategies to make the house run more smoothly during the coronavirus crisis.

How To Encourage Teens: 6 Things Parents Should Say to Teens

Parents of teens have an arsenal of things we tell our kids multiple times a day. And often, they are questions, demands, and reprimands. But what our teens actually need to hear, we may forget to say.

Protect Yourself Rules - Safe Touch / Unsafe Touch

The main goal of this video is to educate children about what to do when confronted with abusive behavior, safe and unsafe touches, going to a parent or another trusted adult if they are confronted in an unsafe situation, and that it is not their fault.

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7 ways To Improve Family Communication

Good communication is the key to any good relationship, but family communication is especially important because of the intimacy level.

Do you regularly get together to talk about problems and let each other know how much you are loved and appreciated? Or is your idea of family communication nodding to one another as you pass in the hallway on the way to the bathroom?

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Using Technology to Connect with Your Kids

Each passing day brings the development of more apps, social media platforms, and games that can help you and your kids stay connected.

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Coronavirus (Covid-19): Talking With Children About Physical Distancing and Self-Isolation

Children will probably have many and mixed feelings about coronavirus (COVID-19), physical distancing and self-isolation. Talking with children about this situation can help them cope.

How Parental Control Apps Improve Family Communication

Parental controls are, fundamentally, tools. Just like the wrench doesn’t hop up and turn the nut for you, parental controls aren’t designed for you to just lock off devices at your convenience. They’re designed to help you create and reinforce boundaries.

An Age-By-Age Guide To Romantic Love

Kids begin developing an understanding of romantic love at an early age. From then on, it’s first crushes, first heartaches and first breakups. Here’s the lowdown on what love means to kids at different ages, and how parents can navigate the ups and downs.

How Do I Talk With My Kid About Healthy Relationships?

Everyone wants their children to grow up to have healthy, fulfilling relationships. When your kid is only in elementary school, that may seem like a long way off.

But learning how to have healthy friendships and treat others with respect early on can help your kid navigate more complicated relationships, including sexual and romantic relationships, later in life.

Teens: Communicating and Relationships

Relationships change during the teenage years. Although your child might want more privacy and more time with friends, family love and support are still very important.

They help your child learn how to make responsible decisions and build caring relationships.

8 Things to Say When Disciplining Your Children

When you’re frustrated, embarrassed, or flabbergasted by your child’s behavior, it can be hard to find the right words. However, the words you use to discipline your children have a big impact. Here are some examples of discipline phrases you might want to use when your child breaks the rules.

5 Common Mistakes When Talking With Preschool Children

5 Common Mistakes when talking with children. See changes in behavior by making these changes.

Communicating with Your Child: What Would You Say

A positive parent-child relationship begins early in life. Watch this clip and look for times when the parents could have used better communication with their children.

Breaking Through the Walls of Teenagers

You don’t know what it’s like to be them. Being a teenager is not the same today as it was when you were in high school. They are bombarded with burdens we were lucky to avoid.

When kids are young they will tell their parents everything, but when they enter their teen years the walls go up.

Break The Yelling Habit

If you have been yelling at your children, you will know by now that it does not work. Yelling is not better; it is just … well, louder. Your children become desensitised to your yelling – the louder you go, the more they ignore you.

You lose your voice, your blood pressure goes up and your home becomes a truly unpleasant place.

10 Strategies for Dealing With a Defiant Teen

Adolescence can be a difficult phase in life to navigate. Youth are trying to figure out who they are, establish their independence, and express themselves. Unfortunately, in some teens, this process can cause them to act out in an angry, argumentative, spiteful, or rebellious manner.

To keep the peace in your home, parents need a strategy to deal with a teen’s defiant behavior.

"This House Rules" - a Game to a Successful "Unfight"

Is your house in a constant state of disagreement?

If you're tired of family fighting, try these three steps to get kids to listen - and parents to be better listeners.