Connecting With Our Kids Over Video Games.

Have you noticed that most of us hate electronics for our kids but can't survive without them ourselves?

This was a sort of revelation to me one day- as obvious as it seems right now to say.

But it feels so so hard when all our older kids wanna talk about is their video games or you tube videos...

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Teaching Kids Emotional Regulation(part -3)

Now how to apply the knowledge in parts 1 and 2 so we can train our brains not to react to our kids with sudden anger? How to change our “anger habit"?

I call it a habit because habit is a technical word that has three clear components according to author Charles Duhigg (The Power of Habit:...

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Aggression In Toddlers

Some aggression and "defiance" in toddlers is age-appropriate, normal and healthy and should be met with clear boundaries set with acknowledgement of their struggle.

For example: Your toddler starts hitting you when you tell him he can't use your lipstick, you simply take the lipstick and...

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The World From The Perspective Of A Two Year Old.

I’m 2 now!

I’m a big boy!

I feel like I have a shiny new brain because I have so many new thoughts like I never did before!

The coolest thought I have is that I’m a whole different person. I used to think me and my mom and dad are the same, but now I know I’m my own...

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