As a parent, you probably want your child to have the skills needed to handle life’s challenges. One of the important skills to have is the ability to calm down when feeling upset or overwhelmed.  Sometimes I feel like so many adults (including me) can benefit from learning and actually implementing these calm-down strategies. After all, …

Being an overwhelmed new mom is not fun. If you are a new mom and feel confused about all the different emotions you feel, you might wonder if it’s normal. After all, you have the baby you wanted in your arms now. Aren’t you supposed to feel happy and grateful? So, is it normal to …

Social skills are the set of abilities that allow people to interact with others. Social skills can be taught, and they can also be learned through experience. Young kids’ worlds usually center around themselves.  Hence, for many kids, it’s hard to grasp the idea of sharing, taking turns, or empathizing with others.  But teaching social …

Practicing random acts of kindness with kids teaches them to grow up as compassionate people.  What’s more rewarding than seeing you have raised warm-hearted, kind people who are of help to others? We cannot be helpful to everyone all the time, but we all can afford to do some random acts of kindness whenever possible.  …

Does your child get ready at turtle speed when their school bus is waiting outside? They never seem to get a sense of hurry no matter how rushed you feel. Well, there is a good reason for this. It’s because young kids usually don’t have a sense of time and they don’t know how to …

Does it drive you crazy when your kids complain for the umpteenth time that “Mom, I am bored”?  Or is it just me? I wish there was a magic wand that could solve this problem!  I don’t know why kids think being bored is not their problem, but their mom’s. Whatever! We are moms, and …

All of us express love differently. In the same way, we like to experience love differently too.  Sometimes, the love we have for people fail to reach them, because we all speak different love languages. Hence it is important to understand what the love language of our children or partner is, to keep the relationships …

Out of the many skills and lessons that parents are required to teach kids, body safety is one of the most important ones.  We should teach children that their bodies belong to them and that no one else has the right to touch them or ask them to touch someone else’s private parts without permission …

Intrinsic motivation is not a single concept. It is a complex and multifaceted construct that has been studied for decades by psychologists and education experts. Intrinsic motivation can be defined as an interest in something, such as science or animals, that happens naturally and the individual pursues it without being told to do so. It …

Self-regulation is one of the key skills we can teach kids for the betterment of their emotional development. Emotional self-regulation is the ability to control one’s behavior and emotional reactions in a manner that is not destructive or socially acceptable.  And usually, young kids and (even many adults) lack the skills to emotionally regulate themselves …