Train Your Perceptions – 2

Train Your Perceptions – 2 We have been talking about modulating your emotions, monitoring them to reduce the intensity and length of an emotional outburst, mainly as applied to anger.  Another tool of Executive Function is focusing, shifting of attention of...

What Kids Need: Parental Boundaries

What Kids Need: Parental Boundaries It doesn’t take very long for kids to learn that they can break the rules without consequences.  Parents help kids learn self-discipline and self-control when they set boundaries in the home and enforce them.  As a high school...

Assertiveness Skills

Assertiveness Skills Kids can stick up for themselves and their beliefs.  Those beliefs can be religious, where they draw the line with friends during those moments of decision.  They can also include a choice they have made for themselves and are willing to stand up...

Resilience in Kids: Religious Programs

Resilience in Kids: Religious Programs We want our kids to make good choices, the choices they are faced with when we are not around.  We want that for our kids, yet so many kids have no faith-based examples to follow in their lives.  Today I want to say that...