As a mother of three teenage daughters and an experienced elementary school teacher, I am deeply concerned about our kids and how resilient they are. Let me explain. Children today live in a world filled with technology — iPad interaction from birth, social media from pre-teens and access to everything and anything on the Internet from…
Learn about body safety from child advocate and author Jayneen SandersWe teach our children water safety and road safety — it is equally important to teach our children ‘body safety’ from a very young age. As both a teacher and a mother, I strongly recommend to all parents that ‘body safety’ become a normal part of…
42% of kids report having been the victim of some form of cyberbullying reports Family Internet Safety Advocate, Sue Scheff.In the past decade, parents and educators have become increasingly aware of this staggering statistic, and bullying prevention programs have been written in response. But there’s a fault in these programs which doesn’t help stop cyberbullying….
Mindfulness is a meditative practice that involves learning to pay attention to the present moment with an attitude of openness and kindness.If there was a way to help kids pay more attention, exercise more generosity and kindness with their peers, perform better in school, and be more aware of themselves and others, would you try…
What is the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?Have you ever been asked to do a task – maybe you were starting a new job – and you believed before you started that you wouldn’t be good at it? Maybe you thought to yourself, ‘I am not going to be able to do this,’ only to try it out…
Pet ownership can teach kids many important values and build positive character traits like giving, empathy and kindness. One of the overlooked opportunities of pet ownership, particularly if it is the right pet, is teaching our children how to care for something dependent on them. Kids can learn the art of kindness and compassion through…
.“Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now without wishing it were different; enjoying the pleasant without holding on when it changes (which it will); being with the unpleasant without fearing it will always be this way (which it won’t).” – James Baraz .Over the Easter holidays, I found myself sitting in…