Positive Self Affirmations: Boosting Your Child’s Confidence & Resilience

Positive Self Affirmations: Boosting Your Child’s Confidence & Resilience

Every parent wants to see their child happy and thriving. One simple yet powerful way to help them build resilience and confidence is to film them affirming their own courage and worth right after such moments.

One Conversation That Will Dramatically Improve Your Relationship & Child’s Cooperation

One Conversation That Will Dramatically Improve Your Relationship & Child’s Cooperation

How do you expect your child to follow rules and conduct themselves in a productive, respectful manner if they cannot easily remember them all? By making time with your kids to create a short list of 3-5 family rules, principles or values together you can foster a much more cooperative relationship and harmonious environment at home.

Preparing For Back To School During COVID

Preparing For Back To School During COVID

This year back to school is going to be different! So, let’s embrace it and be prepared to handle whatever comes our way.

Four Tips To Fostering A Growth Mindset

Four Tips To Fostering A Growth Mindset

Here are four simple tips to fostering a growth mindset during your day to day interactions with your child when they are struggling.

The Honest Truth About Why Kids Lie

The Honest Truth About Why Kids Lie

I regularly receive calls from concerned parents because their child is lying.   The reason: ALL kids do it!  But all lying isn’t the same and all “lies” aren’t even lies. 

Five Ways To Nurture Gratitude & Appreciation

Five Ways To Nurture Gratitude & Appreciation

Yes, we all do it. We make them say “thank you” even when they’re not feeling gratitude or appreciation. Maybe they just don’t understand or recognize…

Technology Time: Setting Limits That Work

Technology Time: Setting Limits That Work

As parents, it is our responsibility to set limits.  And every family’s values and structure is different.  It is important to have a conversation with your child about limits look like in your family…

Preschool Choices: Play Is The Way

Preschool Choices: Play Is The Way

Do you want your little one to be happy and find success throughout their life? Do you feel the need to tour and enroll your child in the top schools in your city in order to get them into a good university…

Is It Time For Your Family To Hit The Charts? (And I'm not talkin’ Top 40)

Is It Time For Your Family To Hit The Charts? (And I'm not talkin’ Top 40)

Incorporating more routine and consistency can help decrease power struggles and increase cooperation and fun in your home!

Preparing for Summer Podcast on Joyful Courage

Preparing for Summer Podcast on Joyful Courage

Casey invites fellow Positive Discipline Coach, Melissa Benaroya, to discuss surviving Summer Break. In this episode they offer practical tools and solutions to set you and your family up for a successful summer. Two to three months is a long time to keep your kids occupied and stimulated.  Get an insight into the importance of boredom and why you don’t have to plan every single second of your children’s vacation. Tune in and learn how routine and summer coexist to help you have fun too! 

Family Conversations To Make The Most Out Of The Presidential Election

Family Conversations To Make The Most Out Of The Presidential Election

An election year is a wonderful time to teach children about the electoral process and issues being debated, such as immigration, terrorism, and healthcare. The election process presents parents with a plethora of unique opportunities to teach core social-emotional skills, such as empathy, emotion management, and social problem-solving while addressing topics such as accepting differences, dealing with gossip, bullying, and name-calling.

From Eating to Excreting: Three Tips to Avoid Power Struggles

From Eating to Excreting: Three Tips to Avoid Power Struggles

All humans struggle for power and control over their own lives and young children are no different! Ideally, we want our kids to do what we need them to without us having to do anything more than merely ask. Let's not kid ourselves…

Understanding & Solutions To Sassy Bossy Back Talk

Understanding & Solutions To Sassy  Bossy Back Talk

Kids can be such amazing parts of our lives with their constant ability to learn and grow, teaching us how to see the big picture and to love someone so much it hurts.

And then they learn the word “No.”

The Influence of Art on Child Development

The Influence of Art on Child Development

Being creative, using arts and crafts, can be an important factor in influencing children’s development. Allowing children to get creative with paint or crafting things with materials typically found in the home is a very common activity with young children.